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Tt[E GLASS OF '41- 




THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 



REUNION 



TUESDAY, JUNE 9TH, 



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TFfE GLASS OF '4I. 



THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 



REUNION 



TUESDAY, JUNE 9TH, 



1891. 



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PRINCETON PRESS 

O. S. ROBINSON & CO., UNIVERSITY PRINTERS. 

PRINCETON. N J. 






TRUSTEES. 



1837-1841. 



His Excellency, WILLIAM PENNINGTON, Governor of New Jersey 

and ex officio President of the Board of Trustees. 
PvEV. JAMES CARNAHAN, D.D., President of the College and in the 

absence of the Governor President of the Board. 

Eev. SAMUEL MILLER, D.D., Princeton, N. J. 

PvEV. ASA HILLYER, D.D., Orange, N. J. 

ROBERT LENOX, Esq., New York City, 

Rev. JOHN McDOWELL, D.D., Philadelphia. 

Rev. DAVID COMFORT, A.M., Kingston, N. J. 

Rev. ISAAC V. BROWN, D.D., Lawrenceville, N. J. 

Hon. SAMUEL L. SOUTHARD, LL.D., .... Jersey City, N. J. 
Rev. ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, D.D., . . . Princeton, N. J. 

WILLIAM SHIPPEN, M.D., Philadelphia. 

Rev. WILLIAM W. PHILLIPS, D.D., New York City. 

JAMES S. GREEN, Esq., Princeton, N. J. 

Hon. lewis CONDIT, M.D., Morristown, N. J. 

LUCIUS Q. C. ELMER, Esq., Bridgeton, N. J. 

Rev. ELI F. COOLEY, A.M., Trenton, N. J. 

Rev. JOHN BRECKENRIDGE, D.D., Princeton, N. J. 

Rev. JOSEPH CAMPBELL, D.D., Hackettstown, N. J. 

JAMES LENOX, Esq., New York City. 

ROSWELL COLT, Esq., New York City. 

Rev. DAVID MAGIE, A.M., Elizabeth town, N. J. 

MATTHEW NEWKIRK, Esq., Philadelphia. 

ROBERT DONALDSON, Esq., New Y''ork City. 

WILLIAM B. KINNEY, Esq., Newark, N. J. 

Rev. JACOB J. JANEWAY, D.D., New Brunswick, N. J. 

Rev. JOHN JOHNS, D.D., Baltimore, Md. 

Rev. JOHN JOHNSON, A.M., Newburgh, N. Y. 



FACULTY. 



1837-1841. 



E^Y. JAMES CAKNAHAN, D.D., 

President. 

Eey. JOHK MACLEAN, A.M., 

Vice-President and Professor of the Greek Language and Literature. 

Eev. albeet b. dod, A.m., 

Professor of Mathematics. 

JOSEPH heney. A.m., 

Professor of Natural Philosophy. 

Eey. JAMES W. ALEXANDEE, A.M., 

Professor of Belles Lettres and Latin. 

JOHN TOEEEY, M.D., 

Professor of Chemistry. 

BENEDICT JAEGEE, A.M., 

Professor of Modern Languages and Lecturer on Natural History. 

STEPHEN ALEXANDEE, A.M., 

Professor of Astronomy and Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. 

EVEET M. TOPPING, A.M., 

Adjunct Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages. 

WILLIAM S. COOLEY, A.M., 
Tutor. 

JOSEPH OWEN, A.M., 

Tutor. 

JAMES C. MOFFAT, A.M., 

Tutor. 

CHAELES K. IMBEIE, A.M., 

Tutor. 

WILLIAM W. WOODHULL, A.M., 

Tutor. 

DANIEL JOHNSON, A.M., 

Tutor. 

WILLIAM A. DOD, A.B., 

Eegister. 



GRADUATE MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF '41. 



*Kev. Joseph Mayo Atkinson, D.D., '91 

Eev. Caleb Cook Baldwin, D.D., 

Hon. John Craig Biddle, LL.D., 

*HoN. Francis Preston Blair, Gen. U. S. A., '75 

^Edward H. Bowen, '48 

*JoNATHAN T. Brown, ? 

James Hervey Bruere, 

?WiLLiAM Burnet, 

*HoN. Zachariah S. Claggett, '90 

*MoNROE Alonzo J. Gumming, '47 

Key. Theodore Ledyard Guyler, D.D., 

*James Brinkerhoff Dayton, Esq., '86 

*Kichard Chambers De Armond, '65 

Hon. Amzi Dodd, LL.D., 

Prof. John T. Duffield, D.D., LL.D., 

*JoHN P. Dunham, ? 

*Nathaniel Evans, ? 

Eev. John Breokenridge Gibson, D.D., 

*Prof. Frederick S. Giger, M.D., '59 

*Prof. George Musgrave Giger, D.D., '65 

*Rev. William Mason Giles, ? 

?Felix Gorman, 

*JoHN Oliver Halsted, '59 

*William Halsted, Esq., '55 

*Samuel Swan Hartwell, Esq., '73 

*Prof. Archibald Alexander Hodge, D.D., LL.D., '86 

*J0HN N. Huston, '47 

*Henry p. Johnson, '47 

■*Thomas Mundell Keerl, Esq., '88 

Thomas Talmage Kinney, Esq., 

?Samuel Mott Leggett, 

Hon. John Linn, 

Francis Minor, Esq., 



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*James p. Miller, '52 

?James Kennedy McCurdy, 

*HoN. John T. Nixon, LL.D., '89 

^Joseph John Norcott, ? 

*WiLLiAM B. Olds, '59 

■*jNathan Merritt Owen, '47 

*Charles H. Parkin, '62 

*WiLLiAM Pv. Phillips, M.D., '64 

Prof. Joseph Desha Pickett, Ph. D., . 

Eev. Ludlow D. Potter, D.D., 

?KoBERT Eeade (Crawford), 

*John Kodgers, Esq., '70 

Key. James W. Kogers, 

*JoHN McDonald Boss, '42 

John Warren Koyer, M.D., 

Hon. Edward "W. Scudder, LL.D 

Key. William Waterbury Sctjddkr, D.D., 

*John Sergeant, Esq., '56 

*Benjamin C. Snowden, M.D., 

William C. Sturgeon, 

?William Butler Thompson, 

*Daniel a. Ulrich, M.D., . '79 

John Hunn Voorhees, Esq., 

*HoN. Richard Wilde Walker, '74 

William Spencer Ward, M.D., 

Eli Whitney, Esq.. 

■^Joseph Graham Witherspoon, '52 



Eugene Lawrence was a member of the Clasp of '41 during the 
Sophomore and Junior years, and received the degrees of A.B. and A.M. 
in 189L 

Charles F. Woodhull, of Monmouth County, N. J., was a member 
of the Class of '41 during the Sophomore and Junior years, was absent from 
College for a year and was graduated in '42. 

Prof. J. S. Schanck, M.D., LL.D., was a member of the Class of '41 
during the Sophomore year, and was graduated in '40. 



NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS, 

WITH THE CLASS-KOLLS ON WHICH THEIR NAMES APPEAR INDICATED. 



Charles Baskeryille, 
Charles Borland, 
O. Bowne, 

Stephen P. Brittan, 
F. R. Colton, 
John M. Cookus, - 
Thomas B. Dall, 
A. P. Dearing, 
William L. Dewart, 
■George H. Dillard, 
Edward B. Dudley, 
James S. Galbraith, 
William Horner, 
Horatio S. Howell, 
Thomas Henry, 
John W. Hutchings, 
Richard Johns, 
W. LuNSFORD Long, 
Thomas McCormick, 
Robert H. Selby, 
R. Kennon Smith, 
R. Lawlon Smith, 
George H. Todd, 
W. R. Throckmorton, 
John Turner, 
John M. P. Voorhees, 
Joseph Watkins, 
Thomas Whaley, 
William B. Whaley, 
John Wickham, 
William M. Wilson, 
John P. Wkifford, 
W. R. R. Wyatt, 



Summary. 

Graduates of 41 60 

Other graduate members 3 

Non-graduate members 34 



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Mecklenburgh Co., Va, 


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Montgomery, N. Y. 


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Staten Island, N. Y. 


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Elizabeth, N. J. 


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Tarboro, N. C. 


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Shepardstown, Va. 


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Washington Co., Md. 


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Athens, Ga. 


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Sunbury, Pa. 


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Sussex C. H., Va. 


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Wilmington, N. C. 


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Steubenville, 0. 


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Warrenton, Va. 


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Trenton, N. J. 


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Charlotte Co., Va. 


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Murfreesboro, N. 0. 


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Baltimore Co., Md. 


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Halifax, N. C. 


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Charleston, Va. 


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Berlin, Md. 


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Nottaway Co., Va. 


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Retirement Seat, Miss. 


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New York City. 


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Philadelphia. 


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Alabama. 


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Millstone, N. J. 


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Mendham, N. J. 


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Edisto Island, S. C. 


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Edisto Island, S. C. 


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Hanover Co., Va. 


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Norfolk, Va. 


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Lambertville, N. J. 


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Big Spring, Ala. 



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CLASS RECORD 



Joseph Mayo Atkinson wos born in Mansfield, near 
Petersburg, Va., January 7th, 1820. He was the youngest 
member of a hirge family, only one of whom now sur- 
vives, Mrs. Lucy J. Gibson, wife ol' tlie Rev. C. J. Gibson, 
D.D,, of Petersburg. One of his brothers was the Kev. J. 
M. P. Atkinson, D.D., for many years President of Hamp- 
den Sidney College; another, the Rev. Thomas Atkinson, 
D.I)., Bishop of the Episcopal Church of North Carolina. 
He prepared for college, and completed the Freshman and 
Sophomore years at Hampden Sidney, and entered the Junior 
Class at Princeton in 1839. He entered the Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary in 1841, was ordained to the ministry by the 
Presbytery of Winchester, April 20th, '-I5, was for four years 
Pastor of the Presbyterian Churches of Shepherdstown and 
Smithfield, Va., was for six years Pastor at Frederick, Md., 
for twenty years of the First Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, 
N. C, for ten years of the Second Church, for a year at 
Warrenton, N. C, at which place he died suddenly, March 
6th, 1891. He was married to Miss Sallie Wellford of Rich- 
mond, Va., who, with their two daughters, Mrs. Charles H. 
Scott and Miss Jane P. Atkinson, still survive him. He 
received the degree of D.D. in 1880. 

In an obituary notice published in one of the newspapers 
of Raleigh it is said of him : "A Prince and a great man has 
fallen to-day in Israel. No man was ever more beloved for 
his virtues than Dr. Atkinson. He was singularly pure, 
guileless and consecrated ; a man of unbounded faith in God 
and in his fellow-men. Gentle as a woman he was impulsive 



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to all good motives. Always fluent in speech and choice in 
diction, there were many occasions when he was truly elo- 
quent. An impromptu speech delivered by him at a public 
meeting on the death of Eobert E. Lee would have done 
credit to the most brilliant orator of our times. To the close 
of life he continued genial, gentle and confiding, loving and 
beloved, defending and upholding the right, condemning 
the wrong, yet alwaj^s merciful." 

Caleb Cook Baldwin was born in Bloomfield, N. J., 
April 1st, 1820. He entered the Junior Class in 1839, and 
Princeton Theological Seminary at Princeton in '41, was 
gmduated in '44. ITe was ordained an Evangelist by the Pres- 
bytery of Newark, May 25th, '47; was married September 
28th, '47, to Miss Harriet Fairchild, and they went as mis- 
sionaries, under care of the American Board, to Foochow, 
China, in '48, and have continued in that field until the pre- 
sent time. They have had ten children, four of whom are 
now living. Four years ago he visited the United States 
and was in good health, bright, cheerful and full of energy 
for further missionary work. In a letter to his brother, 
written March 2d, '91, he says : " We are in pur usual health 
and busied in our various work. I have resigned to Mr. 
Hubbard my only country station, and have taken his share 
of teaching the Theological Class. This, with the work of 
the Revision of the Bible in our dialect and preaching in 
Church and Chapel, make the sum of my work. For two 
or three months the native Pastor of the city Church has 
been laid aside so that the burden of conducting the Sunday 
morning service has mainly fallen to me. I begin to feel I 
am wearing out. The outward man fails — may I always be 
able to say with confidence, 'the inward man is renewed 
day by day.' Within the last three years I have been through 
the revision of the whole Old Testament, and a large part of 
the New — for the most part independently, though I have 
two associates in other mission work. This has been a long, 



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heavy task." Referring to the work of his wife and an as- 
sociate who have charge of all the clay schools he adds, " we 
are a very busy set of people with hands and hearts full of 
care and work. But in God's good time the glorious rest 
will come." 

He received the degree of D.D. from his Alma Mater in 
1871. 

John Craig Biddle is the youngest son of the late 
Nicholas Biddle and maternal grandson of John Craig. lie 
was born in Philadelphia, Jan. 10th, 1823. He entered the 
Sophomore Class in '38 and after his graduation entered as 
a student of law the office of John Cadvvalader, Esq., after- 
wards Judge of the U. S. District Court. He was admitted 
to the bar Dec. 2, '44. He was an active member of the 
Whig party and was elected to the House of Representatives 
of Pennsylvania in '49 and '50. He was afterwards Clerk of 
the Common Council. At the outbreak of the war he offered 
his services to the Commonwealth and was commissioned 
Major on the staff of General Patterson. He served through 
the three months campaign in the Shenandoah Valley and 
was then transferred to the stall' of Gov. Curtin. He enlisted 
as a private in the Gray Reserves during Lee's invasion of 
Maryland in '63. He was appointed Judge of the Court (if 
•Common Pleas, January 12th, '75, by Gov. Hartranft, to till 
a vacancy-. The following June he was elected for the full 
term, receiving the highest majority on the ticket. At the 
close of the term he was renominated and elected without 
opposition November, '85. He has always taken a great in- 
terest in his farm at Andalusia, a tine country seat that has 
been in the family for tive generations. He was for ten 
years President of the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, an 
Honorary Vice President of the Historical Society of Penn- 
sylvania, one of the Vice-Provosts of the Law Academy, a 
Director ot the Philadelphia Library Company, and Presi- 
dent of the Philadelphia Alumni Association of Princeton 



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College. Ill an article in The Saturday Eevkw and Hepublic- 
on " Philadelphia's Judiciary," it is said of Judge Biddle :. 
"Naturally gifted with a judicial mind he quickly distin- 
guishes the crucial points of a case, making his opinions 
noted for the brevity and clearness with which he disposes- 
of the questions presented. Not a few of his decisions are 
now quoted as defining the law upon questions of much, 
intricacy and doubt. The mantle of an ancestry noted for 
their bravery and uprightness has fallen upon him, and he 
ranks with the highest of Philadelphia's Judges as a man. 
fearless and independent of public sentiment or excitement." 
He received the degree of LL.D. from Washington and 
Jefferson College in 1875, and also from his Alma Mater in 
1891. He was married July 2d, '51, to Mary Claypoole 
Rockhill, daughter of Thomas C. Rockhill of Philadelphia. 
Mrs. Biddle died in May, '52, leaving a daughter who died 
in infancy. 

Francis Preston Blair, Jr., was born in Lexington^. 
Kentucky, February 19th, 1821. He was the son of Francis 
P. Blair, Sr., and Eliza Gist. His father belonged on one 
side to the Blairs who were identified with Princeton Col- 
lege and had in it many distinguished men, and on the other 
to the Preston family, which counted among its members 
some of the most eminent men of our countrj^ His mother 
was the daughter of Nathaniel Gist, the man who went as- 
General Washington's guide to Fort Duquesne, and who- 
came of a family dating back to Oliver Cromwell and con- 
taining many men of distinction as soldiers and civilians. 

With such an ancestry as this it is not wonderful that 
" Frank" Blair, as his friends delighted to call him, took 
rank as one of the foremost men of his time. The first nine 
years of his life were spent in Kentucky in the neighborhood 
of Frankfort, where his grandparents resided and where his- 
father, Francis P. Blair, Sr., first began his career as an 
editor, afterwards removing to Washington City at the in- 



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stance of General Jackson to take charge of the administra- 
tion paper, soon to become a power in the land as The Globe. 
The subject of this sketch spent a few years in Wash- 
ington City and was then sent to a school in Alexandria, 
After finishing at this school he was sent to the College of 
Chapel Hill in North Carolina. He remained there two 
years and there formed some of the most pleasant friend- 
ships of his life. From there he went to Princeton ; after 
being graduated there he studied law in Lexington, Ky., and 
settled in St. Louis in 1843, having formed a law partnership 
with his brother Montgomery Blair, afterwards Postmaster 
General under Mr. Lincoln. He attained some success as a 
lawyer, but the bent of his mind, combined with the associa- 
tion of politicians from early youth, turned his attention to 
politics and he soon became prominent in his own State. 
In 1845, his health being impaired, he went to New Mexico. 
While there the Mexican war broke out and he joined Gen. 
Kearney as an aid and scout. Having become familiar with 
the country nnd the people, he rendered invaluable service 
to Kearney's command. He gained reputation as a soldier 
during this campaign and gave strong evidence during this 
period of the remarkable military genius which afterwards 
distinguished him. 

He returned to Missouri in 1847 and soon became 
identified with the political movements of the time, as a 
Free-Soil Democrat and firm adherent of Col. Thomas E. 
Benton. The position taken by the Democratic party on 
the subject of slavery placed him out of sympathy with it, 
and in 1852 he was elected to the Missouri Legislature as a 
Free-soiler. During this period he frequently contributed 
editorial articles to the Missouri Democrat. His productions 
w^ere always brilliant and to the point and exerted a marked 
effect upon the formation of public opinion. From this 
time forward, being identified with the Free-Soil party, he 
had no easy part to play. His enemies were numerous in 



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the slavery party and were aggressive and threatening, for 
they realized as he did, that tlie struggle against the exten- 
sion of slavery meant serious work. 

In the autumn of 1856 Mr. Blair was nominated by the 
Republicans of St. Louis for Congress and defeated Mr. 
Kennet, the pro-slavery candidate. He took a prominent 
position at once in the BLouse, his first speech being in favor 
of colonizing the slaves in Central America. Although he 
was an uncompromising adversary of the system of slavery 
he took the advanced ground that the institution was more 
injurious to those owning slaves than to the slaves them- 
selves. Some of his warmest personal friendships were 
amono; slave-owners, and he never allowed his strono; con- 
victions to interfere with his friendships. His belief was 
that the only permanent and peaceful solution of the negro 
question lay in colonizing them in some other country. He 
was one of the first and warmest advocates of the construc- 
tion of a railroad from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, a thing- 
then thought so impossible as to be almost quixotic. 

He was returned to Congress in 1858 and again in 1860. 
About this time the " cloud no bigger than a man's hand " 
began to betoken the struggle soon to take place between 
l!Torth and South. He threw himself at once into the cam- 
paign which elected Mr. Lincoln, giving himself up entirely 
to the work, realizing that it was vital to the safety of our 
Government to elect a President who would sacrifice all for 
the preservation of the Union. 

In this campaign his coolness in danger, his calmness in 
argument, won the respect of all who heard his arraignment 
of the slavery party then in power and his advocacy of the 
Republican candidate. His life was in hourly danger, and 
he knew it, but the same calmness and courage which made 
him one of the ablest generals carried him successfully 
through one of the bitterest contests on record. He became 
at once the trusted leader of the Union party, raising the 



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first regiment of Missouri Volunteers and giving his own 
notes for the price of the clothing necessary to equip them. 
All personal interests were forgotten and laid aside for the 
one great motive—the salvation of his State to the Union. 
Those were days when the lives of all Union men were im- 
perilled. How much more that of the man who was the 
avowed leader of the patriots and determined enemy of all 
who would not support the Government. Through those 
trying days he bore himself like a hero. The history of his 
life at that time is the history of the State in its struggle for 
liberty and Union, and to him more than to any other in- 
dividual does Missouri owe her life as a Union State. 

He was a warm supporter of Mr. Lincoln during the 
first session of the thirty-seventh Congress. At the close of 
the session he returned to Missouri and occupied himself in 
raising troops. He attended the second session of this Con- 
gress, fining with great abiHty the exacting position of 
chairman of the Military Committee. At the close of this 
session he was requested by the Secretary of War to raise a 
brigade of volunteers in his own State, where, owing to his 
great popularity, he was soon successful. On the 7th of 
August, 1862, he was commissioned Brigadier General and 
his brigade attached to General Steele's division, which 
joined General Sherman's command at Helena. All histories 
of the war tell of his gallant achievements at Chickasaw 
Bluffs and in all the battles of the terrible campaigns around 
Vicksburg. For gallantry in these battles he was promoted 
to Major General of Volunteers and commanded first the 
15th and afterwards the 17th Corps in Sherman's march to 
the sea and remained with the army, participating in all the 
great battles, until the close of the w^ar. 

Brave and gallant soldier as he w'as and uncompromis- 
ingly hostile as he was to the enemies of his country, when 
the war was over and the Southern army had laid down 
their arms, he at once arraved himself against those who 



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were in favor of continuing to treat Southern people as 
enemies, and with voice and pen constantly urged the adop- 
tion of a liberal and humane policy. From this time he 
united with the Democratic party. He had fought for the 
restoration of the Union and the supremacj^ of the law, not 
for tlie proscription and destruction of the people of the 
South. Relentless to the foes of his country, magnanimous 
to his defeated countrymen, he stood forth as the champion 
of the South against a tyranny which sought to deprive them 
of their manhood and independence. 

He was nominated for the Vice-Presidency on the ticket 
with Mr. Seymour in 1868. During the same year he served 
as Government Commissioner on the Union Pacific Rail- 
wa3^ He was elected to the United States Senate in 1872 
to fill the unexpired term of Charles D. Drake, who had 
been appointed to the judgeship of the Court of Claims. He 
was one of the Senate Committee appointed to investigate 
the "Ku-Klux outrages," so-called, and during his stay in 
the South became more than ever attached to its people, and 
by his kindly acts became greatly endeared to them. His 
labors on the Committee were unremitting, and to his clear 
insight and laborious research the people of the South are 
indebted for the removal of the stigma which had been cast 
upon them. 

Exposure during his four years of active service in the 
v/ar, during which he suffered with malignant fevers con- 
tracted in the swamps near Vicksburg and from a severe 
injury received by the kick of an artillery horse, and the 
constant strain of ceaseless labor and anxiety during and 
subsequently to the war, at length undermined a constitution 
that seemed hard as granite, and in 1873 he was stricken 
with paralysis. This was the beginning of the end, and 
after a long and painful illness, borne with matchless forti- 
tude and patience, he died in July, 1875. 



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He died a poor man, the value of his whole estate at 
the time of his death being less than $500. He cared not 
for wealth, and gave what he made freely for his country. 
The value of his life and services to the State of Missouri are 
inestimable, and the loving gratitude in which his memory 
is held by his fellow-citizens of St. Louis and Missouri has 
been a heritage to those who bear his name more priceless 
than all the treasures of the world. 

General Blair was married Sept. 8th, 1847, to Appolline 
Alexander, grand-daughter of George Madison, the first 
Governor of Kentucky and a nephew of President James 
Madison. 

There were eight children oi' this marriage, six of whom 
survive : Andrew A. Blair of Philadelphia, eminent as an 
author and an authority on Analytical Chemistry; Christine 
B. Graham, wife of Benjamin B. Graham of St. Louis; 
James L. Blair, Esq., of St. Louis; Francis P. Blair of 
Chicago; Gary M. Bhxir of Huntsville, Ala.; and William 
A. Blair of St. Louis. The widow of Gen. Blair is still liv- 
ing and resides in St. Louis. 

Edward H. Bowen of Berlin, Md., died in 1848. No 
further information. 

Jonathan L. Brown of Elizabeth (then Elizabethtown), 
N. J., died soon after graduation. No further information. 

James Hervey Bruere was born in LTpper Freehold^ 
Monmouth County, N. J., April 13th, 1822, on a farm which 
had been in the family for several generations, the orig- 
inal title having been obtained from the Government by one 
of his ancestors. Prior to the year 1700 his ancestry were 
French Protestants, whose home was in the town of Chevre, 
Province of Champagne, France. About the year mentioned 
they fled from persecution and came to America. His grand- 
father, Capt. James Bruere, took an active part in the local 



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aiFairs of his neighborhood during; theRevohitionary period, 
and with his Company formed part of the Coast Guard of 
New Jerse}^ The famous " Mollie Pitcher," whose name 
will forever be connected with the battle of Monmouth, was 
brought up on his grandfather's farm. She was the daughter 
of John Hanna of Allentown, and wife of John Mahan, the 
cannonier who was killed in the battle. She died January, 
1833, and is buried in the cemetery at Carlisle, I'a. Mr. 
Bruere's grandfather was one of the founders of the Presby- 
terian Church of Allentown, one of the oldest in New Jersey, 
and his father was an Elder in that Church at the time of 
his death. He was married to Lydia A., daughter of the 
Rev. Henry Perkins, D.D., for forty years Pastor of the 
Church at Allentown. Of a family of seven children there 
are living five sons and one daughter. Two sons were gradu- 
ated at Princeton, one at Cornell — the others are engaged 
in agriculture and stock raising in Dakota and Washington. 
Mr. Bruere studied law in Princeton in the office of James 
8. Green, Esq., but finding the confinement of a student's 
life not favorable to his health he did not enter on the prac- 
tice of law, but engaged, and has to the present time con- 
tinued, in active business. In 1863, during the troublous 
time, of the Civil War, he was a member of the Legislature 
of New Jersey from Mercer County. In 185G he was or- 
dained an Elder in the Presbyterian Church of Ewing, N. 
J., and at the present time is holding the same ofiice in the 
Westminster Church, Asbury Park. 

William Burnet of Newark, N. J. No information. 

Zachary S. Claggett was born in Pleasant Valley, Md., 
in 1819, on a farm overlooking the valley on the slope of 
Maryland Heights, which had long been in the Claggett 
family. His father was Capt. Samuel Claggett, one of the 
most conspicuous personages in society and in public life 
of Washington County, Md. His mother was a sister of 



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Dr. Horatio Claggett, a physician, as distinguished for skill 
in his profession as for benevolence of heart, generosity 
and integrity. He prepared for college at the Hagerstown 
Academy, and entered the Junior Class at Princeton in 1839. 
After his graduation he studied law in the office of the Hon. 
John Dixon Roman, and was subsequently associated with 
him in the practice of law, particularly during Mr. Roman's 
absence in Congress. Mr. Claggett represented Washington 
County for two terms in the Senate of Maryland, and was 
conspicuous for his ability and fidelity to duty. In '76 he 
was appointed Auditor of the court, which office he filled 
most acceptably and successfully until called from his desk 
by the disease which terminated in his death, August 5th, 
1890. In the Resolutions which were adopted at a meeting 
of the Bar of Washington County, held as a tribute of re- 
spect to his memory, it is said : " By his honesty of purpose, 
his professional learning, his strict integrity, and his accuracy 
in all the details of business, Mr, Claggett won for himself 
a name above reproach, and by his life and example estab- 
lished a high character for professional integrity and honor.'' 
He was married to Miss Jane Rose Nicholas of Geneva, 
IST. Y. His wife, six sons and one daughter survive him. 

Monroe Alonzo I. Cumming of Parish of Rapides, La., 
died in 1847. No further information. 

Theodore Ledyard Cuyler, D.D.,was born at Aurora, 
N. Y., on the 10th of January, 1822. He entered the Soph( - 
more Class at Princeton in 1838, entered the Princeton 
Theological Seminary in 1843, was graduated in 1846, and 
after spending a few months preaching in Kingston, Wyo- 
ming Valley, Pa., he took charge of the Presbyterian Church 
of Burlington, N. J. He was ordained to the ministry by 
the Presbytery of West Jersey, May 4th, 1848. In Septem- 
ber, 1849, he was called to be the first Pastor of the Third 
Presbyterian Church of Trenton, N. J. In June, 1853^ 



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he removed to New York City, and became the Pastor of 
the Market Street Reformed (Dutch) Church. 

After seven years of successful ministry in ISTew York 
he became the first Pastor of the Lafayette Avenue Presby- 
terian Church of Brooklyn. Under his ministry there 4,203 
persons were received into membership, and for several 
years it was the largest Presbyterian Church in the United 
States. He served this Church for thirty years, and then 
resigned in order to undertake a ministry at-large, the con- 
gregation bestowing on him a beautiful testimonial and 
issuing a large "Memorial" volume. 

Dr. Cuyler received his Doctorate of Divinity from 
Princeton in 1866. He was married in March, 1853, to 
Miss Annie E. Mathiot, the daughter of the Hon. Joshua 
Mathiot of Ohio. He has been the most prolific writer of 
articles for the religious press in America, having published 
about 3,800 articles in leading journals and magazines. He- 
is also the author of the following vcluuies : 
Stray Arrows, From the Nile to Norway, 

The Cedar-Christian, God's Light on Dark Clouds, 

Heart-Life, The Wayside Springs, 

Pointed Papers, Right to the Point, 

The Empty Crib, ISTewly Enlisted, and 

Thought-Hives, How to be a Pastor. 

He has also published numerous tracts and taken an active 
part in the Temperance Reform and is President of the 
National Temperance Society. Nearly all his books have 
been republished in England, and five of them have been 
translated into Swedish and one into Dutch. For forty-five 
years he has been indefatigably active in the pulpit, on the 
platform and in the press. His brief published papers have 
had a circulation of over one hundred and fifty millions in 
all parts of the globe. 

Dr. Cuyler occupies a prominent place in the front 
rank of American preachers. He has represented the Pres- 



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byterian Church of the United States in the General Assem- 
blies of Scotland and of Ireland. During vacation visits to 
Europe he preaches to crowded houses in London and other 
localities in Great Britain. He delivered the Historical Dis- 
course at the Centennial Anniversary of the General Assem- 
bly in Philadelphia in 1888. 

James Brinkerhoff Dayton was born at Baskingridge, 
N. J., January 27th, 1822. His father was Joel Dayton, 
born September 5th, 1777 ; his mother, Nancy Lewis, bora 
April 23d, 1787. He studied law in Trenton in the office of 
his brother, the Hon. William L. Dayton, LL D., Judge of 
the Supreme Court of New Jersey, Attorney- General, United 
States Senator, Minister to France, aud Candidate for the 
Vice-Presidency of the United States. He engaged in the 
practice of law in Camden, where he continued to reside 
until his death, March 9th, '86. He was a member of the 
Council of the City of Camden, was for a time City Treas- 
urer, and City Solicitor. He w-as a member of the Riparian 
Commission of the State of New Jersey, a Director of the 
Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company, President of the 
West Jersey Ferry Company, and President of the Camden 
Safe Deposit and Trust Company. 

He was married December 19th, '48, to Louisa M. 
Clarke, daughter of William M. Clarke of Philadelphia. Of 
this marriage there are two surviving children, William 
Clarke Dayton and Louisa, wife of Peter Van Voorhees, 
Esq., of Camden. He was married a second time, April 
19th, '59, to Sarah Jane Thompson, daughter of the late 
Hon. Alexander Thompson of Chambersburg, Pa. 

Richard Chambers De Armond was born in Harrisburg, 
Pa., August 25th, 1818. He was the only son of Andrew 
S. De Armond and Eliza R. Chambers. After his gradu- 
ation he studied law in Harrisburg, and w^as admitted to the 
bar in that city in '44. After practicing law for some years 



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he removed to Philadelphia and engaged in business, and 
was for a time connected with the Presbyterian Board of 
Home Missions. He died in Philadelphia in February, '65. 
He was married in April, '45, to Eliza Matilda Kellogg ; 
had nine children, five of whom survive. 

Amzi Dodd was born in what is now the township of 
Montclair, then part of the Township of Bloorafield, Essex 
County, New Jersey, March 2d, 1823. His father, Joseph 
S. Dodd, was the First-honor man of the class of 1813, 
studied medicine, and for more than thirty years was a suc- 
cessful and eminent physician. His mother was Maria, 
daughter of Rev. Stephen Grover, for fifty years Pastor of 
the Presbyterian Church in Caldwell, New Jersey. Joseph 
S. Dodd was the son of General John Dodd, who was a 
lineal descendent of Daniel Dodd, who was born in England, 
and died in Newark, New Jersey, in 1665. 

Amzi, the second son of Joseph S., had his early 
schooling in the Bloomfield Academy, entered Princeton 
College Sophomore Class half advanced, in the spring of 
'39, and was graduated with the highest honor, pronounc- 
ing the Latin Salutatory at Commencement in September, 
'41. For four years after graduation he was engaged in 
teaching, at the same time pursuing the study of law and 
its related subjects. Subsequently he entered the law ofiice 
of Miller & Whelpley, in Morristown, New Jersey. He was 
licensed as an attorney in January, 1848, and soon after was 
connected in legal practice with Mr. Frelinghuysen, the 
late Secretary of State. 

Early connection with important corporate and judi- 
ciary aftairs led him largely into legal departments calling 
for judicial rather than forensic powers. He delivered oc- 
casional public addresses before lyceums ; pronounced in 
'51 the oration in Newark at a general city civic celebra- 
tion of the 4th of July; later a literary address at Com- 
mencement in Princeton, and a discourse before the Essex 



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County Bible Society, of which he was the President. He 
was one of the early promoters of the Republican party, 
preaidino; and speaking at the first mass meeting in Newark 
in the early summer of '56, when George William Curtis, 
Henry J. Raymond and the venerable Ex-Chief Justice 
Hornblower were speakers. The breaking up of the old 
Whig party, that summer into the American and Republi- 
can parties made the election of a Democratic Congressman 
assured. Mr. Dodd however the more willingly consented 
to accept the Republican nomination for Congress and re- 
ceived an enthusiastic support. He gave up his time to the 
discussion of the exciting questions of the hour in the school 
houses and elsewhere throughout his district, identifying 
himself with the strongest opposition to the extension of 
slavery in the territories. 

Mr. Dodd was married in '52 to Jane, oldest daughter 
of William Frame, and resided in Newark till the summer 
of '60, v.-hen he removed to Bloomfield where he has since 
lived. He served one term frooi that district in the As- 
sembly of the State Legislature in the session of '63, de- 
clining to serve a second term. In the same year he was 
appointed Mathematician of the Mutual Benefit Life In- 
surance Company, to succeed Joseph P. Bradley, late 
Justice of the United States Supreme Court. 

In 1871 the ofiice of Vice Chancellor was created by 
the New Jersey Legislature to meet the increasing equity 
business and Mr. Dodd was nominated by Chancellor Za- 
briskie and appointed by Governor Randolph to the new 
office. In the next year he was nominated by Governor 
Parker and appointed by the Senate one of the Special 
Judges of the Court of Errors and Appeals. In '78 he 
was again nominated by Governor McClellan and reap- 
pointed for the same place, holding it till the spring of 
'82, when he resigned. In May, '75, he resigned the Vice 
Chancellorship and in the same year was appointed a mem- 



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ber of the Riparian Coramissiou by the nomination of Gov- 
ernor Bedle and held that position till April, '87. In '76 he 
was appointed by the Supreme Court one of the Managers 
of the JSTew Jersey Soldiers' Home and has been engaged 
in that service, a gratuitous one, ever since. 

In April, '81, he again took the office of Vice Chan- 
cellor at the request of Chancellor Runyon, resigning it 
early in '82 to become the President of the Mutual Benefit 
Life Insurance Company — a position he now holds. It is a 
noticeable circumstance that though of pronounced Repub- 
lican political views the public offices he has held have been 
by appointments of Democratic administrations, and were 
unsolicited. 

It has been said of Mr, Dodd that " he was a model 
equity judge, distinguished for his extensive acquaintance 
with legal principles, his rare wisdom and patience, his 
wide knowledge of affiiirs, his clear and forcible style, and 
his remarkable power of unravelling the details of a com- 
plicated case." To the important office of President of the 
great Life Insurance Company of which he is now the head 
he is devoting the qualities and powers, in their maturity, 
which have distinguished him throughout his professional 
and judicial life. In 1871 he received the Degree of LL.D. 
from the College of New Jersey. 

John Thomas Duffield was born in McConnellsburg, 
Pa., February 19tb, 1823. The ancestor of the family in 
America, George Duffield, came from Ballymena, Ireland, 
in 1740, and settled in Lancaster County, Pa. He was one 
of the founders and an Elder of the Presbyterian Church of 
Pequa. His son, George Duffield was graduated at the Col- 
lege of :N"ew Jersey in 1752, Tutor 1754-6, Trustee 1777-90, 
was appointed by Gov. Morton of Pennsylvania Chaplain 
of the Pennsylvania forces, July 6th, 1776, was for a time 
joint Chaplain with Bishop White of the Continental Con- 
gress. John T. Duffield prepared for college at Bedford, 



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Pa., at the Academy in charo^e of Rev. Bajnard R. Hall, 
D.D. He entered the Sophomore Class at Princeton 
in 1838. After graduation he taught a private school in 
McConnellsburg for a year, then Mathematics for a year 
in the Union Academj' Philadelphia, and entered the 
Theological Seminary at Princeton in '44. In '45 he was 
elected Tutor in Greek in the College, the other Tutors at 
the time being his class-mates — Giger, Hodge and Owen. In 
'47 he was elected Associate Professor of Mathennitics, in 
'54 Professor of Mathematics, in '62 of Mechanics and 
Mathematics, and had charge of both departments until the 
appointment of the present Professor of Physics in '73. 

He was ordained by the Presbytery of New Brunswick 
Feb. 5th, '51, and in connection with his duties in college 
was for two years Stated Supply of the Second Presbyterian 
Church of Princeton, then recently organized. The same year 
he published, for the benefit of the Second Church, " The 
Princeton Pulpit," a volume containing a sermon from each 
of the Presbyterian ministers of Princeton. At the meeting 
of the Synod of New Jersey in Princeton in 1865, he was 
elected Moderator, and at the opening of the Synod in '66 
at Elizabeth, he preached a sermori on the Second Advent 
which was published by request. In 1866 he published an 
article in thie Evangelical Quarterly Reineic on " the Discovery 
of the Law of Gravitation," in '67 an article in the Prince., 
ton Review on " the Philosophy of Mathematics." In 1877 
he preached a sermon in the College Chapel on Luke 3: 38, 
"Adam, which was the son of God," in which he discussed 
the question, "Whether the origin of man by Evolution is 
consistent with Biblical Anthropology?" This sermon, 
somewhat enlarged, was printed by request in the January 
number of the Princeton Review for 1878. He preached the 
Discourse at the funeral of President Maclean, August 13th, 
1886, which was published by request of the Board of Trustees. 



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For a number of years, until prevented by the state of 
his health, Prof. DufSeld was largely engaged on the Sab- 
bath in supplying vacant pulpits in New Jersey and the 
adjoining cities. For one year he had charge of the pulpit 
of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Trenton ; for six 
months, in connection with Dr. Mcllvaine, had charge of 
the pulpit of the First Church of Morristown, 

He was married in '52 to Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of 
George S, Green, of Trenton, N. J., great-great grandson of 
Jonathan Dickinson and brother of John C. Green, Chan- 
cellor Henry W. Green, LL.D., and Judge Caleb Smith 
Green, LL.D. He has four sons and two daughters. 
His eldest son, of the Class of '73, is Pastor of the First 
Presbyterian Church of New York City. His second son, 
of the Class of '76, was graduated at the College of Phy- 
sicians and Surgeons of New York City with the Second 
Honor in a class of one hundred and fifty. His third 
son, of the Class of '81, is Assistant Treasurer of the Col- 
lege. His youngest son, of the Class of '92, has commenced 
the study of law in Newark and is a member of the New 
York Law School. Three of his four sons represented the 
Cliosophic Society in Junior Orator contests and received 
Prize medals. 

He has been connected with the Board of Education of 
Princeton since its organization in 1852 and for the last 
eleven years has been the President of the Board. 

He received the degree of D.D. from the College of New 
Jersey in 1873 and the degree of LL.D, from Lake Forest 
University in 1890. 

John P. Dunham of Brooklyn, N. Y., died shortly after 
graduation. No further information. 

Nathaniel Evans of Bayou, La. Marked as dead in 
the General Catalogue of the College. No further informa- 
tion. 



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John Breckenridgb Gibson was born in Trenton, N. 
J., June 15th, 1823. His father was the Rev. Robert Gib- 
son of Charleston, S. C, his mother Margaret Stuyvesant 
of Albany, N. Y. He entered the General Theological Sem- 
inary of the Episcopal Church in New York in '41. was 
graduated in '44, ordained Deacon the same year and Priest 
in '47. After having had charge of several parishes he 
was appointed Rector of Burlington in 1860, and College 
filled that office for six years. For the last twenty-two 
years he has been Rector of St. John's School, Sing Sing, 
New York. In 1873 he received the degree of D.D. from 
St. Stephen's College, N. Y. 

He was married to Frances P. Wood of New York, in 
1847; has had two sons and three daughters of whom one 
ecu and one daughter are now living. 

Frederick S. Giger was born in Philadelphia in 1820. 
Having lost his father in early life his mother and her two 
sons had their home with her brother, the Rev. George 
Musgrave, D.D., LL.D., of Baltimore, Md. He entered the 
Sophomore Class in '38, and after his graduation studied 
medicine and received the degree of M.D. from the Univer- 
sity of Maryland in '44. He was subsequently elected Pro- 
fessor of Surgery in the Baltimore Medical College. He 
died in '59. 

George Musgrave Giger was born in Philadelphia 
June 6th, 1822. He entered the Sophomore Class in '38, 
the Theological Seminary in '41 and was graduated in '44. 
He was appointed Tutor in '44, Adjunct Professor of Mathe- 
matics in '46, Adjunct Professor of Greek in '47, Professor 
of Latin in '54 and Lecturer on Architecture in '62. He 
resigned on account of ill health in '65 and was appointed 
Emeritus Professor of Latin. 

He was licensed in '44 and ordained in '60 by the Pres- 
bytery of New Brunswick. For several years, in connection 



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with his duties in College, he had the pastoral charge of the 
Witherspoon St. Church. 

At the Commencement in '65 he delivered the Histor- 
ical Address at the Centennial Anniversary of the Cliosophic 
Society. He died Oct. 18th, '65, at the residence of his 
uncle Dr. Musgrave in Philadelphia. The funeral services 
were conducted by President Maclean and Drs. Atwater and 
Duffield. He bequeathed his library to the College and 
made it a residuary legatee of his estate to the amount of 
130,000 to found the Giger Professorship of Latin. 

He received the degree of D.D. from Jefferson College 
in '61. 

William Mason Giles entered the ministry of the 
Episcopal Church, and for a time was rector of a church in 
Baltimore. 

Felix Gorman received the degree of M.D. from the 
University of Pennsylvania in '44. No further information. 

John Oliver Halsted was born in the city of ISTew 
York on September 14th, 1822. His parents were natives of 
Essex Co., N. J. His father, Oliver Halsted, a law-book 
publisher and seller, was an uncle of the late Chancellor 
Halsted. His mother, Sarah, was the daughter of David D. 
Crane, for many years a Judge of the Court of Common 
Pleas of Essex County, 

After graduation he studied law with Edward Sand- 
ford, a distinguished lawyer and member of the New York 
bar, and practised law in New York city until his death 
which occurred on the 17th of December, 1859. He was 
stricken with apoplexy while sitting alone in the evening at 
his table in his apartments, preparing a brief for the argu- 
ment of a cause in the Court of Appeals, and was found the 
next morning lying unconscious on the floor. He died in a 
few hours. He never married. 



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William Halsted was born in Trenton, N. J,, June 
4th, 1824. He was the son of the Hon. William Halsted of 
the Class of 1812, a member of Congress from Kew Jersey? 
and was grandson of Caleb Halsted of Elizabeth, N. J. His 
mother was Frances Glensworth. 

After graduation he studied law in his father's office, 
was admitted to the bar in July, '45, and engaged in the 
practice of his profession in Trenton. After a brief career 
which gave promise of distinction, he died July 30th, '55. 

Samuel Swan Hartwell was born at Somerville, N, J,, 
in 1822. His father was Thomas A. Hartwell, Esq., his 
mother Elizabeth Swan, He studied law and practised his 
profession at Somerville, where he died in 1872. He mar- 
ried Miss Caroline I^esbitt, now living in Chicago, 111. He 
had four children, three of whom survive, — Elizabeth, wife 
of Dr. James Suydam ; Knox, for a time a student at Prince- 
ton, now residing in Chicago, and Hugh Nesbitt, residing in 
Somerville. 

Archibald Alexander Hodge, eldest son of the Kev. 
Charles Hodge, D.D., LL.D., was born at Prin.ceton, IS". J., 
July 18th, 1823. The maiden name of his mother was 
Sarah Bache, a granddaughter of Benjamin Franklin. He 
entered the Theological Seminary in '41 and was gradu- 
ated in '45. He was appointed Tutor in the College of 
New Jersey in '44, resigned in '46, was ordained as an 
Evangelist by the Presbytery of New Brunswick in May, 
'47, sailed in August, '47, as a missionary to India 
and was stationed at Allahabad, where he remained until 
the failing health of his wife required his return in May, 
'50. He shortly after accepted a call to Lower West 
Nottingham, Md., where he remained until '55 ; was pastor at 
Fredericksburg, Va., from '55 to '61, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 
from '61 to '64, when he was appointed Professor of Theology 
in the Western Seminary at Allegheny. In connection with 



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his duties in the Seminary he was the stated supply of the 
First Church of Pittsburg in '65, and of the ISTorth Church, 
Allegheny, from '66 to '77. In '77 he was elected Associate 
Professor of Theology in the Seminary at Princeton, and in 
'78 on the death of his father he was elected Professor of 
Didactic and Polemic Theology, which ofHce he filled until 
his death. 

Dr. Plodge was one of the most prolific and highly 
appreciated writers of the American Presbyterian Church. 
He published his " Outlines ot Theology " when a pastor at 
Fredericksburg, in '60. A new and much enlarged edition 
of this work was published when he entered on the duties 
of his Professorship in Princeton in '78. This work has 
been republished in Great Britain and has been translated 
into Welsh, modern Greek and Hindustani. In '66 he 
published a work on "The Atonement," an edition of which 
w^as published in Great Britain in 1868. lie prepared "A 
Commentary on the Confession of J*^aith," which was pub- 
lished by the Presbyterian Board of Publication in '69 and 
a second edition in '85. In '80 he published the " Life of 
Charles Hodge," of w^hich an edition was published in Great 
Britain in '81. In '87 he published " Popular Lectures on 
Theological Themes." He was the author of review articles 
and tracts on the following subjects : " The Day Changed 
and the Sabbath Preserved, " " Presbyterian Doctrine Briefly 
Stated, " " The Doctrine of the Trinity, " " Immortahty Not 
Conditional, " " Whose Children should be Baptized ? " 
" Why do I believe Christianity to be a Revelation ? " " Sheol, 
Hades and the Intermediate State," and in connection with 
Dr. Warfield an article in the Preshyterian Review on " In- 
spiration." He delivered the following discourses and ad- 
dresses which were subsequently published : Four Sermons 
on Infant Baptism, in '57 ; Funeral Discourse on the death 
of Wm.H. White, '59; "The Gathering of the People 
unto Shiloh," a sermon preached in the First Presbyte- 



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rian Church, N'ew York, May 1st, 1864; "The State and 
Religion," the annual address before the Presbyterian 
Historical Society in Philadelphia, May 2d, 1878; "Doc- 
trines," an address delivered before a synodical institute in 
Cleveland, Ohio, October, '73; "Adaptation of Presbyteri- 
anism to the Wants of the Day," an address before the Pan- 
Presbyterian Council in Edinburg, July 4th, '77; "The 
Vicarious Sacrifice of Christ as understood by Presbyteri- 
ans," an address before the Pan-Presbyterian Council in 
Philadelphia, in '80; "The Authority of the Holy Scrip- 
tures," an address before the Pan-Presbyterian Council in 
Belfast, in '83. 

In JSTevins' Presbyterian JEncyclojxedia it is said of Dr. H. : 
" He is justly distinguished for his vast and varied scholar- 
ship. As a preacher he is always listened to with pleasure 
and profit. His sermons are rich with Bible truth, logically 
constructed, clothed in captivating language, delivered with 
solemnity and addressed with earnestness to both the in- 
tellect and the heart." 

He was married to Miss Elizabeth Burt Holliday, of 
Winchester, Va., who died leaving two daughters who still 
survive. He was married a second time to Mrs. Margaret 
Woods, widow of Dr. James S. Woods, of New York city, 
a sister of the Rev. Dr. McLaren, Bishop of the Episcopal 
Church of Illinois. 

He received the degree of D.D. from the College of 
I^ew Jersey in '62 and the degree of LL.D. from Wooster 
University in '76. 

John N. Houston died in '47. 

Henry P. Johnson died in '47. 

Thomas Mundell Keerl was born in Baltimore in 1823. 
His paternal grandfather was a native of Bavaria, a physician, 
who settled in Baltimore in 1782, His father was a merchant 
of Baltimore, who married a daughter of Thomas Mundell 



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of Prince George's County, Md., a native of Ayrshire, Scot- 
land. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Balti- 
more. He married Miss C. Spaight, daughter of Judge John 
R. Donnell of N'orth Carolina. He died Dec, '88, leaving a 
widow and one son, Eversficld F. Keerl of Baltimore. 

Thomas Tallmadge Kinney, is the only son of Hon. 
Wm. B. Einney, who was a grandson of Hon. Wm. Bur- 
net, M.D., of the Class of 17-19, a member of the Con- 
tinental Congress and afterwards Medical Director in the 
Army of the Revolution. Thomas T. was born in New- 
ark in 1821, entered the Sophomore Class at Prince- 
ton in '38, graduated in '41, and immediately became the 
first law student of Joseph P. Bradley, now a Justice of the 
IJ. S. Supreme Court. In '44 he was admitted to the bar, 
but became more actively interested in journalism, first as a 
reporter on his father's paper, the Newark Daily Advertiser. 
In '51, his father, who was at the time a member of the 
Board of Trustees of the College, became U. S. Minister to 
Sardinia, when his son succeeded him as editor and pro- 
prietor of the paper, which is still in his possession and 
under his management. In '60 he was a member of the 
National Convention at Chicago, which nominated Abraham 
Lincoln for President. He w^as a delegate to the Philadel- 
phia Convention which organized the National Board of 
Trade; was an original member of the New Jersey Society 
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and its President 
till about '89, when he declined a re-election on account of 
other duties. He is also a member of the State Board of 
Geology, and was President of the State Board of Agri- 
culture from '78 to '82, during which his annual addresses 
were published by the Board in the English and German 
languages. He was also a trustee of the State Institution 
for the Deaf and Dumb; is a member of the Board of Pro- 
prietors of East Jersey; a hereditary member of the Society 
of the Cincinnati as a descendant of his grandfather who 



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was one of its founders, and is a life member of the N J. 
Historical Society. Aniong the institutions of Newark, he 
is president of the Fidelity Title and Deposit Coni[)any and 
a director in several other institutions, including tlie Na- 
tional State Bank, the Electric Light and Power Co., the 
Cit}' Ice Co., and the Stephens & Condit Transportation 
Co. 

lie never sought for political office and declined an 
appointment to a foreign mission tendered to him during 
President Arthur's administration. In 1863 he married 
Estelle Condit, daughter of the late Joel W. (^ondit of 
Newark, and has four children — three daughters. The 
eldest is the wife of Wm. Campbell Clark, a manager of the 
extensive Clark Thread Works, oi" Newark. His ou]y son 
is now a student at Princeton College, with strong tendencies 
toward natural science and the practical arts. He has 
already received two patents for his inventions, one of which 
is an improvement to the pt)stal boxes, for which the de- 
partment has just authorized the placing of experimental 
samples in the streets of Washington and Newark. 

Samuel Mott Leggett. No information. 

John Linn was born in Sussex Co., N. J., on May loth 
1821. At the age of fifteen he engaged in teaching and 
prepared himself to enter the Junior Class at Princeton in 
1839. After graduation he entered the law office of Daniel 
Haines in Newton, N. J., and remained there for two years 
when Mr. Haines was elected Governor. He then spent one 
year in the office of Governor Pennington in Newark, and 
was admitted to the bar in November, '44. He commenced 
the practice of his profession in Sussex Co., N. J., first at 
Deckertown, then at Newton. After twenty years he re- 
moved to Jersey City, where he now resides. 

Mr. Linn has been devoted to his profession, has been 
engaged on many important cases, and his career has been 



34 

marked by ability, fidelity and success. In 1862, during the 
darkest hours of the war, he accepted, much against his in- 
clination, the nomination to Congress by the Republican 
party. The district was strongly Democratic and he was 
defeated. Both before and since his candidacy for Congress 
he has had the ofier of honorable positions in political life 
which were declined. 

He was married in 1850 to Hannah Smith, daughter of 
Coe Smith of Sussex Co., has had two sons, one of whom 
is still living, a graduate of Princeton of the Class of 
1880. 

Francis Minor. The following communication was 
received bj^ the Committee from Mr. Minor: 

St. Louis, Mo., May 14th, 1891. 

Dear Friends and Classmates : — To add to the interest 
of our semi-centennial anniversary, you request from each 
survivor a statement "giving the date and place of birth^ 
ancestry, course since graduation, if married name of wife, 
family, academic or other honors, publications, and any 
other personal matters that may be of interest to classmates." 

In my case, the statement must be very brief. 

I was born in Orange County, Virginia, in 1820. The 
family is of English origin, its first appearance in Virginia 
being in 1673. 

After leaving Princeton I began the study of law and 
was graduated from the Law School of the University of 
Virginia in 1848. During that year I w^as married to a 
relative of the same name, Virginia L. Minor, who is living, 
and who has proved to be a helpmate in the truest sense of 
the word. 

In 1846 we made St. Louis our home, and have resided 
here ever since. 

To answer the next point, I must make a preliminary 
statement. Although the question of woman's enfranchise- 



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ment antedated by a considerable period the recent amend- 
ments of the Federal Constitution, when those changes in 
the organic law were being considered the whole question 
ofsuft'rage was brought prominently forward, and the friends 
of woman sutiVage entertained the hope that a sense of justice 
would lead men to include all citizens in the scope of those 
amendments. The addition of the one word " sex " to the 
fifteenth amendment would have accomplished this result, 
and the leaders of the Republican party were appealed to, 
but in vain, to make the addition. 

The matter is referred to here merely for the purpose of 
enabling me to say that I was of the number of those who 
warmly advocated placing the ballot in the hand of woman 
as the only sure and eifectual means of securing her per- 
manent elevation and improvement. Anything short of this 
is fleeting and transitory. What is given to-day may be 
withdrawn to-morrow. If we build the edifice at all it must 
have its foundation on the bed-rock of the Constitution. In 
a republic sufi'rage lies at the base of all that affects humanity. 
Life, liberty, property, religious freedom, all are dependent 
upon it; and yet this indispensable right is unjustly with- 
held from one-half of the people. 

More than thirty millions of the citizens of the United 
States are thus held in a condition of subjection and per- 
petual tutelage. It is impossible for woman to emerge from 
this condition, for no class of persons can rise above the 
position in which they are placed by the law. Hence the 
supreme necessity of suffrage for this disfranchised class. 
We welcome to our shores the lowest and most degraded 
types of European manhood and place in their hands the 
sacred emblem of freedom, the ballot, and at the same time 
deny it to our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. It is 
surprising that we do not see the danger to our institutions 
which lurks in such a course, yet the majority of men view 
it with apathy and indifference. 



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Believing that the welfare of men as well as of women 
would be promoted by extending the ballot to woman — that 
the principle involved is one of right, not of expediency, and 
that we could engage in no higher or better work, both Mrs. 
Minor and I have for more than twenty years labored to 
bring about such a result. 

In the Forum for December, 1886, and particularly in 
the number for April, 1890, I have set forth my views more 
at length. Finis coronal opus. Sincerely yours, 

Francis Minor. 

James P. Miller. Was born in Newark, IST. J., and 
continued to reside there until his death in 1852. No further 
information. 

James Kennedy McCurdy. No information. 

John Thompson Nixon. The following record of Judge 
Nixon is extracted from a Memoir read by A. Q. Keasbey 
Esq., before the New Jersey Historical Society, January 28th, 
1890. 

Judge Nixon was born in the village of Fairton, Cum- 
berland County, N. J., on the 31st of August, 1820. His 
father was Jeremiah S. Nixon. During his childhood the 
family removed to Bridgeton, N. J. He was graduated at 
the College of New Jersey in 1841. 

He took a high rank in a class which included a large 
number who afterwards attained distinction, and was named 
a;S one of the Junior orators to represent Whig Hall by the 
unanimous vote of the Society. 

After leaving college he became tutor in the family of 
Judge Pennypacker, then the Judge of the United States 
Court for the Western District of Virginia. He was admit- 
ted to the bar in that State in 1845, and made arrangements 
to form a partnership with Judge Pennypacker, who had 
been elected to the Senate of the United States. The death 
of the Senator soon after taking his seat changed his plans, 



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and he returned to his native county and entered upon the 
practice of law in this State in conn -ction with the late 
Charles E. Elmer, He pursued the practice of law for 
several years with great ability and success. 

In 1849 he was elected to the Legislature, in 1850 was 
re-elected and was made Speaker of the House of Assem- 
bly, and tilled that office with marked ability. After two 
terms in the Legislature he devoted himself with new dili- 
gence to his profession. He married in 1851 Mary H. 
Elmer, the youngest daughter of the Honorable Lucius 
Q. C. Elmer, who, as United States District Attorney, com- 
piler of the laws. Member of Congress and Justice of the 
Supreme court of New Jersey, occupied during a long life 
a marked and honorable position in the State. 

In 1858, in the midst of the confusion of parties that 
preceded the civil war, Judge Nixon became a candidate for 
the Congress of the United States. He ran independently 
of all former political organizations, and was elected by a 
majority of over two thousand. He was re-elected as a Re- 
publican in 1860, and thus he occupied a seat in the House 
of Representatives during the long contest for the Speaker- 
ship, which resulted in the election of ex-Governor Pen- 
nington — at the culmination of the strife between the forces 
of slavery and freedom which led to the civil war, and 
durino; the earlier stages of that war. His action through- 
out that long strife for the control of the House had much 
to do with the result. Indeed, the history of the closing 
scenes of that contest shows that his influence and vote were 
controlling in the final choice of Governor Pennington. He 
was an active member of the Committee on Commerce, and 
devoted himself with his accustomed diligence and fidelity 
to the duties then so grave and full of difficulties to the 
legislator of a Nation involved in a civil war. 

At the close of his second term he returned to his 
practice in Bridgeton, and continued the labors he had 



undertaken in preparing under the provisions of Acts of the 
Legislature successive editions of the Digest of the Statute 
Laws of the State. Judge Elraer, his father-in-law, had 
preceded him in a similar duty, and Elmer's Digest, pub- 
lished in 1838, was, before Judge Nixon's first edition in 
1855, the familiar compilation of the written law of the 
State. New editions of Nixon's Digest followed in 1861 
and 1868, and he published Nixon's Forms, which was also 
an outgrowth or descendant of the book of Forms published 
by Judge Elmer. 

In May, 1870, he was appointed by President Grant 
Judo;e of the United States District Court. This office he 
held until his death at Stockbridge, Mass., on the 28th of 
September, 1889, his term of service covering nearly twenty 
3^ears, and his term of life having nearly reached three score 
and ten. 

Before speaking of him in his capacity as a judge, 
allusion should be made to his labors in other lines of duty. 
He was elected a trustee of the College of New Jersey in 
1864, and served for several years on the Committees on 
Finance and on Library' and Apparatus, and was Chairman 
of the latter committee. He was frequently chosen to repre- 
sent the Presbytery in the General Assembly of the Pres- 
byterian Church and was made one of the Delegates from 
the United States to the Pan-Presbyterian Council which 
met at Edinburgh in 1887. While on this mission the 
degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by the 
College of New Jersey. He was also designated by the 
Assembly in connection with Judge William Strong of the 
United States Supreme Court, Judge Allison of Phila- 
delpdiii, Judge Breckenridge of St. Louis, and others, to 
revise llie Book of Discipline, which, as prepared by this 
Committee, is now the law of the Presbyterian Church. 

In 1883 he was appointed a Director of the Theological 
Seminar\- at Princeton. 



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He was one ot tlie four residuary legatees of the large 
estate of John C. Green. This bequest was a striking proof 
of the confidence which the character of Judge Nixon for 
integrity and prudence had inspired. He was elected a 
member of the New Jersey Historical Society, May 15th, 
1873, was elected First Vice-President of the Society, and 
was re-elected annually until his death. In January, 1879, 
he was appointed Chairman of the Committee to enquire as 
to the history of the exemption of Brotherton Indians from 
taxation. In January, 1884, he read a paper before the 
Society on the life and character of Judge L. Q. C. Elmer, 
and on the 20th of May, 1886, he was appointed a member 
of the committee on the Centennial of the Inauguration of 
Washington. 

As to his character as a Judge — he entered upon its 
unaccustomed duties with much diffidence, but with his 
characteristic earnestness of purpose. His training as a 
lawyer and as a compiler of the Statutes had qualified him 
fully for the new task devolved upon him, and his experi- 
ence in the National Legislature during the early stages of 
the war had enabled him to comprehend clearly the nature 
and extent of the novel duties imposed upon the Federal 
Judiciary in the States in consequence of the civil war and 
its results. Before the war the District Court of the United 
States in New Jersey had been of little importance, but 
shortly before the appointment of Judge Nixon several cir- 
cumstances concurred to create a marked advance in the 
scope of the powers of the Court and the extent and im- 
portance of its business. The Bankrupt law was passed in 
1867, and the administration of its important and intricate 
provisions was chiefly entrusted to the District Courts of 
the United States. About the time of Judge Nixon's acces- 
sion the machinery of this law had come into full work- 
ing order, and it became his duty to enter at once upon this 
novel and difficult branch of judicial administration. During 



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the year preceding his appointment the law establishing the 
Circuit Courts of the United States was passed, and William 
McKennan was appointed by President Grant as the Judge 
of the Third Circuit, embracing Pennsylvania, Delaware 
and New Jersey, The duties of. the Circuit Judge in so 
large a district, embracing the second city in the Union, 
made it impossible for him to give full attention to the in- 
creasing business of the Court of New Jersey, and the result 
was that year by year more of the Circuit Court business 
devolved upon the District Judge. 

The vast Internal Revenue system made necessary by 
the war was in full operation when Judge Nixon assumed 
his duties. And the situation of New Jersey between two 
great cities, and the large extent of her manufactures, from 
which internal revenue was derived, caused a very large in- 
crease in both the criminal and civil business of the District 
Court. 

The Customs collection district of the City of New 
York comprised all the shores of New Jersey in the Coun- 
ties of Bergen and Hudson as far as the mouth of Kill von 
Kull, and thus a large part of the business arising from that 
source found its way into the Federal Courts of New Jersey. 
Besides this, it was soon discovered by suitors in patent 
cases in the two great States on either side of us that here 
was a tribunal in which such controversies could receive 
prompt and intelligent consideration. 

He was eminently a just and upright judge. There was 
no room in his court for sharp practice, nor any favor for idle 
technicality. Although trained especially in the common 
law these qualities led him to become a wise and capable Chan- 
cellor, as we understand the name. He took a large view 
of the questions that came before him and strove to see 
them on all sides in the light of a strong common sense. 

He was also endowed in a large degree with that excel- 
lent judicial gift — patience, not only in investigation but 



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in the hearing of cases. He never failed to listen to counsel 
with that manifestly interested attention, which is so win- 
ning and so encouraging to forensic etfort. 

As a crowning characteristic lie was full of kindness 
and never-failing courtesy. It may be said of him as was 
said of the late Charles Chauncey: " [le was conspicuous 
through life in all relations, at the bar atid everywhere else, 
for his good will to everybody — distinguished by an habi- 
tual and unaffected expression of benevolence. It seemed 
to be a necessity of his nature that lie should not only feel 
but also show it, and show it to all, in every way, by his 
looks and words and acts " As a lawyer, citizen, legislator, 
almoner and judge his work remains — a work wliich re- 
dounds to the honor of his native State. 

JosEPn John ISTgrcott of Greenville, N. C. Marked 
with an asterisk in the General Catalogue, No further in- 
formation. 

William B Olds of Newark, N J , went to Buffalo, 
N. Y., shortly after his graduation, entered the law office of 
Barker and Sill, was admitted to the bar and engaged in the 
practice of his profession in Buffalo, and died there in 1869. 

Nathan Merritt Owen was born in Bedford, N. Y., 
about 1821. He was the brother of the Rev. Joseph Owen, 
D.D., of the Class of '35, tutor from '36 to '39, when he went 
as a missionary to India and was for many years President 
of the College of Allahal)ad. Nathan M. entered the Theo- 
logical Seminary at Princeton in 1844, intending when he 
had completed his studies for the ministry to go to India 
and engage in missionary work with his brother at Allaha- 
bad. The same year he was elected a tutor in the College 
and continued in the tutorship in connection with his duties 
in the Seminary until '47. A few months after he died of 
consumption at his home in Bedford, About a fortnight 
before his death he was married to a lady to whom he had 
been for some years engaged. 



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Charles H. Parkin, of New York City, died in 1862. 
No further information. 

William R. Phillips was born in Lawrenceville, N. J., 
July 13th, 1823. His father wa'^ Judge Lewis li. Phillips, 
an elder for many years of the Presbyterian Church at Law- 
renceville and a Trustee and Director of Princeton Theolog- 
ical Seminary. His mother was Maria Smith of Philadelphia. 

He was a pupil of the Lawrenceville High School from 
1884 to '38, when he entered the Sophomore Class at Prince- 
ton. After his graduation he studied medicine at the Uni- 
versity in Philadelphia and received the degree of M.D. in 
'44. He commenced the practice of his profession at Bristol, 
Pa., and became associated with a prominent physician ot 
Bristol, Dr. John Phillips, whose daughter Anne xMaria he 
subsequently married. On account of failing health from 
pulmonary disease he removed to his father's home in Law- 
rences'ille, where he died in 1864. 

Joseph Desha Pickett. No communication has been 
received from Mr. Pickett, except a telegram before the 
Semi-centennial Reunion expressing regret that he could not 
be present. He entered the Senior Class at Princeton in 
1840, from Kentucky, and was graduated in '41. He was 
for a time a Professor in the University of Kentucky, and 
more recently for a number of years was Su|)erintendent of 
Public Instruction in Kentucky. He received the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy from the College of New Jerse}' in 1881. 

Ludlow D. Potter was born January 3d, 1823, at New 
Providence, N. J., on a farm now partially covered by the 
town of Summit, the ancestral home of the family for several 
generations. His ancestors came to this country about 200 
years ago — on his father's side from Wales, on his mother's 
side (maiden name, Pettit) from France, of Huguenot ex- 
traction, driven out by persecution. Both his grandfathers 



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-were Captains in the Revolutionary Army, his father a 
Major in the war of 1812. 

After graduation he taught two years in a boarding 
school in Plainfield, N. J., spent one year in Union Theo- 
logical Seminary, two years in the Seminary at Princeton 
and was there graduated in '46. After spending a year in 
teaching and studying under the Rev. Dr. Hale, at Penning- 
ton, N. J., he went to the West in '47, and for six years was 
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Brookville, Ind. By 
the appointment of Presbytery, he resigned his pastoral 
charge to take charge of a Classical Academy in Union 
County, Ind., and remained there for three years. In '66 
he accepted a professorship in the female college at Glen- 
dale, Ohio; in '65 was made President of the Institution, and 
has since continued in that position. He has had more than 
3,000 pupils under his charge, about 400 of whom were 
graduated, having completed the required course of study. 

He was married to Henrietta M. Ketcham, of Penning- 
ton, jST. J., who died in '67, leaving three sons and two 
daughters. His oldest son is pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church of Cedar Falls, Iowa ; his second son, a graduate of 
Princeton, is in the Brush Electric Company of Cleveland, 
Ohio; his third son, a graduate of Princeton and of the 
Ohio Medical College, is practicing medicine in Indianapolis 
■and is a member of the Faculty of the Indiana Medical Col- 
lege. His eldest daughter is married and lives in Dalton, 
Mass., his youngest daughter is a teacher in Glendale Col- 
lege. He was married in '74 to Ellen Wiley, of Washing- 
ton, Pa. 

He received the degree of D.D. from Hanover College 
in '74. He has published about twenty discourses, chiefly 
baccalaureate sermons, a few addresses by special request, 
-and occasional articles in secular and religious papers. 

Robert Reade entered the Sophomore Class in 1838 
from New York City as Robert Reade Crawford and with 



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that name was graduated in '41, Soon after leaving college 
he dropped the name, Crawford, at the request, as it was 
understood, of a relative named Reade by whom he was 
adopted. He accordingly appears as named above in the 
Triennial Catalogues. He studied law and received the de- 
gree of LL.B. from Harvard in 1843. 

Have been unable to obtain any further information. 

John Rodgers was born August 21st, 1822, at Sandy 
Hill, Washington County, N. Y. He was the son of Ravaud 
K. Rodgers, D.D., for forty years pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church of Bound Brook, N. J., and for thirty-six years 
stated clerk of the Synod of New Jersey. He was a grand- 
son of John Richardson Bayard Rodgers, M.I)., surgeon of 
a Pennsylvania Regiment in the Revolutionar}' Army and 
for many years an eminent physician and surgeon in New 
York City and a professor in the Medical College. He was 
a great-grandson of the Rev. John Rodgers, D.J)., the dis- 
tinguished pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New 
York City and the first Moderator of the General Assembly. 
He was the great-great-grandson of Thomas Rodgers and 
his wife Elizabeth Baxter, both Scotch-Irish Presbyterians,, 
who came from Londonderry, Ireland, and settled in Boston, 
Mass., in 1721. 

He was prepared for college at the school of the Rev. 
J. T. Ilalsey, of Elizabeth, N. J. After his graduation he 
studied law at Somerville, N. J. in the office of the Hon. 
George T. Brown, and was admitted to the bar and subse- 
quently became a Counselor of the Supreme Court of New 
Jersey. He removed to Burlington, where he continued! 
the practice of his profession and became editor of The Bur- 
lington Gazette. In '51 he was elected Secretary of the 
Senate of New Jersey ; in '56 was appointed Cashier of the 
Bank of Burlington, and in '65 became Secretary of the 
Morris Canal and Banking Company of Jersey City, which 
position he held until his death, on Sept. 23d, 1870. 



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(Jncler the pastorate of his friend and classmate, Dr. 
Ouyler, he connected himself with the Presbyterian Church 
of Burlington, and became one of its most active and useful 
members. In 1860 he was elected a ruling elder and served 
faithfully in this othce until his removal to Jersey City in 
'65. He took a deep interest in Oddfellowship and Ma- 
sonry, and was a charter member and first master of the 
Burlington Lodge, No. 32, F. and A. M. 

He was married on October 10th, 1850, to Elizabeth 
Simmons Howell of Philadelphia, and had three children, 
Ravaud Kearney, Margaret Simmons, and Caroline Thomas 
who married William Tennent Podgers Miller. His widow 
and children are still living. 

He was known and honored as a prompt and eflicient 
business man, a public-spirited citizen and a courteous 
Christian gentleman. 

James W. Pogers. The Committee received from Mr. 
Rogers the following communication : 

Parthenon Heights, Bladensburg, Md. 
April 20th, 1891. 
Rev. and Dear Sirs, 

I find that I must forego the happiness I had prom- 
ised myself of attending your proposed celebration, but 
pursuant to your request give you the information asked for 
in the circular. 

I was born in 1822, at Hillsborough, N. C. Soon after 
leaving Princeton I was married in Lagrange, Tenn., to 
Cora A. E. Harris, a lovely woman still living. We have 
six children living, the eldest of whom is J. Harris Rogers, 
inventor of the " Pan-Electric System," on which certain 
Congressmen made the " Pan-Electric" job, but were com- 
pelled, after a long and expensive lawsuit, to restore the 
patents. 

In 1844 I was ordained an Episcopal preacher, and 
built six churches in and about Memphis, Tenn. I was 



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what is commonly called a " Ritualist," with incense, candles^ 
&c., but comin^^ to look on these performances as merely a 
sham mass I abandoned them and became a Roman Catholic. 
Since that time I have been practicing law in Washington, 
D. C. 

I have never achieved anything worth mentioning, but 
send you herewith two little books, which attracted very 
little attention — one pretending to be nothing more than 
doggerel and both thrown ofi" on the spur of the moment. 
Possibly your genius and learning may see more in them 
than the public did, I am now engaged on a Quarto-Cen- 
tennial Poem — Columbus the leading character — and have 
written about two hundred pages. It is not an Epic but a 
Psychic Poem, and discusses past, present, and future 
events. Singularly, part of the dedication, written June 
16th, '90, pays a glowing tribute to Dr. Scudder who the 
day before had preached in the Tabernacle — as reported by 
the New York Smi next morning. (The preacher referred 
to was probably Dr. Scudder of Jersey City, the nephew^ of 
Dr. W. W. Scudder of the Class of '41). 

l!^othing gratifies me more than to hear of my old class- 
mates, but lest you should forget me entirely I beg that I 
may have my name properly inserted in the Catalogue. Mr. 
Alexander some years ago told me I was dead, and proved 
it by a star opposite my name in the Catalogue. This mis- 
take probably arose from some publication of the death of 
my son Dr. J. W. Rogers. Subsequently J. Harris Rogers 
was substituted for J. W., but J. Harris as mentioned above, 
is my eldest son and still living. He was educated in Lon- 
don and Buloin-sur-mere. I am a little jealous of his fame 
but hope — as Dr. Scudder would say — to " pass him on the 
home-stretch." 

Yours with great regard, 

J. W. Rogers. 



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John McDonai d Ross was the son of John Ross, Chief 
of the Cherokee nation. He prepared for College at Law- 
renceville, N, J,, and died the year after his graduation. 

J. Warren Rijyer. The following communication was 
received by the Committee from Dr. Royer : 

Trappe, Pa., June 3, 1891. 
Prof. Duffield of Commiitee, 

Dear Sir: — My professional engagements are of such 
character that 1 cannot at present writing positively say 
whether I can be present at the semi-centennial anniversary 
of our class to be held the present month. I hope to be 
there, but should I not be with the number that are left of 
the Class of '41, I hereby transmit a short personal history, 
humble in its beginning, unassuming in its busy mid-life, 
and quiet though somewhat aggressive in its still active 
winding-up. 

My parents: The Hon. Joseph Royer and Elizabeth 
Dewees. 

Time and place of birth: July 21, 1820, at Trappe^ 
Montgomery Co., Pa., where I have always resided and 
where I expect after awhile that my body will be laid to 
rest, having a firm trust in God that the soul, freed from 
the travails of earth's wayfaring, will wing its way to its 
Maker and Redeemer, there forever to bask in the sunshine 
of Eternal Love. 

My wife : Anna Herbert, daughter of Henry Herbert, 
Esq., and Cornelia McMaster, of Philadelphia, Pa., and pre- 
viously of Boston, Mass, 

Living children : Three sons and two daughters. 

I graduated from the Medical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Pa., April 1845, and have followed the practice of 
medicine unremittingly since, and I am still as active in the 
profession as in the long ago. 

I have occupied no position of especial honor or trust, 
political or otherwise. 1 have for the past ten years held 



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and continue to hold by appointment the position of phy- 
sician and surgeon to the Montgomery Co., Pa., almshouse. 
The position is both honorable and responsible. 

I am an active and rather prominent member of St. 
Luke's Reformed Church of this place, and to end this short 
but succinct history, I am a firm Republican and a Free- 
mason. 

I am, with much respect, my fellow-classmate, 
Very truly yours, 

J. Warren Royer. 

Edward Wallace Scudder was born in the city of 
Trenton, New Jersey, Aug. 11, 1822, where he has continued 
to reside until the present time. His parents were natives 
of Trenton township, now called the township of Ewing, 
where the families of both have resided since about the year 
1700. The Scudders are of Puritan ancestry, having come 
to Massachusetts Bay Colony in the year 1635, whence this 
branch removed to Long Island about 1660, and subse- 
quently to the banks of the Delaware, about 5 miles above 
Trenton. He was prepared for college at the Trenton 
Academy and the Lawrenceville High School, and entered 
the Sophomore class at Princeton in 1338. He stood high 
in his class, and was honored with an oration at Commence- 
ment. Immediately after graduating he entered the office 
of Hon. William L. Dayton as a law student, and was in 
due course licensed to practice as an attorney and a coun- 
selor-at-law. He was elected State Senator to represent the 
County of Mercer in 1863 and served for three years, being 
chosen President of the Senate for the last year of his term. 
Until 1869 he successfully practiced his profession, when he 
was appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of New 
Jersey, which office he still holds by successive appoint- 
ments, the last having been made March 23, 1890, for a 
term of seven years. As a jurist he has been honored and 



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respected, and his whole time has been exclusively devoted 
to the responsible duties of his office. 

Having always been a student he is familiar with the 
literature of his profession, but patient attention to the 
hearing of causes and uniform courtesy are the most dis- 
tinguishing traits of his official character. 

In recognition of his high position and services, the 
College of New Jersey conferred on him the degree of LL.D. 
in 1881. 

Following the faith of his fathers he has been an elder 
and trustee of the Presbyterian Church for many years, and 
has once represented the Presbytery to which he is attached 
in the General Assembly. Since 1861 he has been a trustee 
of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, a regular attend- 
ant at the meetings of the Board, and has shown great 
interest in the Institution. He w-as appointed a delegate to 
the Pan-Presbyterian Council, which met at Belfast in 1884, 
but was prevented by official duties from attending. 

In 1848 he married Mary Louisa Drake, daughter of 
Hon. George K. Drake, formerly a Justice of the Supreme 
Court of jSTew Jersey, and a graduate of Princeton College. 
Two of their sons were graduates of Princeton — Edward 
D., now deceased, of the class of '70, and George D., now 
practicing law in Trenton, of the class of '76. Two other 
sons and two daughters, all married, are living in New 
Jersey, not far from their parents' home. Their mother 
died in January, 1890. 

William Waterbury Scudder was born in Pandite- 
nipo, Ceylon, Sept. 17, 1823. His father was Rev. John 
Scudder, M.D., of blessed memory. Graduated in 1841, he 
spent three years in the Theological Seminary at Princeton — 
the last year, with the approbation of the Professors, in 
special studies bearing on Missionary life. He was licensed 
by the Presbytery of Elizabeth in the Spring of '45 and 
ordained by the same Presbytery, in the First Presbyterian. 



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Church of Elizabeth, N". J., July 14, '46. He sailed for 
Ceylon in November, '46, arriving in Feb. '47. He was 
engaged in Missionary labors in Ceylon, at Batticotta, 
Mauchy and Chavagacherry till 1851. After a brief visit 
to America in '51-52, he with two of his brothers began 
labors in the Ascot District of Southern India, formerly the 
Ascot Mission of the Reformed (Dutch) Church. 

Returning to America in 1872 with his famil}', he re- 
ceived and accepted a call to the First Congregational 
Church of Glastonbury, Conn., and was installed its pastor 
Dec. 17, 1873, having first severed his connection with the 
Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church. This 
step was reluctantly taken in the interest of his family, the 
education of his children seeming to demand his presence 
in this country. 

This object having been in large measure attained, by 
the invitation of the Board he returned to India to the 
Ascot Mission with Mrs. Scudder, in Sept. '84 — one of his 
daughters. Miss M. K., having preceded him in '83, and 
one of his sons. Rev. Lewis R,, M.D., following him in '88. 

In '88, a Theological Seminary in the Ascot Mission, 
with a paid-up endowment of about |50,000, was established 
by the authority of the General Synod, and in June of the 
same year Dr. Scudder was elected Professor in the Sem- 
inary, by the Synod. Since its establishment Dr. Scudder 
has devoted himself to the work of his Professorship with 
energy and success. In the early part of the year, 1891, 
through the great burden of labor resting on him his health 
failed completely and his life was for weeks despaired of. 
The Lord has however graciously answered prayer in his 
behalf and raised him up to health in a most remarkable 
manner. 

Dr. Scudder has been thrice married. His first wife 
was Catharine Ennise Hastings, of New York, to whom 
he was married, Sept. 24, 1846. She died March 11, 1849. 



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He was married to Elizabeth Olivia Knight, of Newark^ 
N. J., Sept. 29, 1852. She died Sept. 4, 1854. He was 
married to Frances Ann Rousseau, of West Troy, N, Y., 
Aug. 26, 1858, who is now with him in India. 

Of his four children, two, as already mentioned, are 
with him on the field in India. Of the others, Rev. W. W. 
Scudder, Jr., is settled in Alameda, Cal., and the youngest 
(Frances) is married to Samuel H. Williams, Glastonbury, 
Conn. He received the degree of D.D. from Union College 
in '67. 

John Sergeant, Jr., was born in Philadelphia in July, 
1823. He was the son of the Hon. John Sergeant, LL.D., 
of the Class of 1795, one of the most eminent American 
lawyers. United States Senator from Pennsylvania and 
American Ambassador at the Panama Congress. He was 
grandson of the Hon. Jonathan Dickinson Sergeant of the 
Class of 1762, a member of Congress and Attorney General 
of Pennsylvania. He was great-grandson of Jonathan 
Dickinson, the first President of the College. He studied 
law with his father, was admitted to the bar, entered on the 
practice of his profession in Philadelphia, and died July 23d, 
1856. 

Benjamin Clarkson Snowden was born in Berks Co., 
Pa,, Sept. 14th, 1822. His father was Dr. Isaac C. Snovvden 
of Philadelphia, a graduate of both the Academic and 
the Medical Departments of the University of Pennsylvania. 
His mother was Maria Mearus of Bucks Co. His grand- 
father was Dr. Isaac Snowden, who married a daughter of 
Gerardus Clarkson, living near Princeton, N. J. So far 
back as the family record goes his paternal ancestors were 
physicians. 

The Snowden family were among the early settlers of 
this country. They emigrated from Wales, and originally 
spelled their name as it is still spelled in Wales — Snowdon. 



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They were noted for their longevity, wealth and strict ad- 
herence to Presbyterianism. 

Benjamin C. was graduated with honor at the Jeiferson 
Medical College in 1844. He married Sarah Throckmorton 
Wyckoff, Dec. 4th, 1845, and removed to Huntingdon Val- 
ley. He there practiced his profession for 25 years, having 
for the greater part of that time the largest country practice 
in that section of the state. Though naturally of a strong 
constitution, yet, owing to his extended practice with its 
constant strain, his health failed and he was obliged to re- 
tire, to the regret of a large community, and with an emi- 
nently successful professional record. Dr. Snowden was 
repeatedly urged to accept political office, but refused on 
account of his devotion to his profession. 

Leaving Huntingdon Valley, he removed to Philadel- 
phia in 1870. The change proved beneficial to his health, 
and after a time he resumed the practice of his profession 
in the city and continued it successfully until his last illness. 
He died Jan, 19th, 1890, from an attack of pneumonia, con- 
tracted by exposure in professional duties during the pre- 
valence of the grippe that winter in Philadelphia. 

Dr. Snowden was a devoted husband, a loving father, 
and a sympathetic friend. Generous to a fault and preferring 
to be imposed upon rather than judge any one uncharitably, 
whilst he did not amass wealth he died esteemed and la- 
mented by all within the wide circle of his acquaintance. 

Mrs. Snowden, two daughters and one son are still 
living. 

William C. Sturgeon of Hartsville, Pa. At the Re- 
union no one present was able to give any information in 
regard to Mr. Sturgeon, but subsequently the Committee 
learned through Dr. Potter that Mr. S. was living and 
resided at Nashville, Tenn. A letter addressed to him there 
brought the following reply : 



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Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 4th, 1891, 
Prof. John T. Duffield. 
Dear Sir : 

With feelings of pleasure commingled with regret I 
reply to your recent favor. During the long vista of the 
past I have been in comparative ignorance of the personal 
history of my beloved classmates of '41. Their recent re- 
union at their Alma Mater must have been an occasion of 
very great joy to those who were permitted to participate 
therein. 1 rejoice that so many of them have risen to high 
and distinguished honor. As for myself I have not achieved 
much that is worthy of special note. By reason of par- 
ticular providence I have occupied minor positions of use- 
fulness in retired life. Most of my earlier days were em- 
ployed in teaching. With reference to personal history I 
can only say in general that for about twenty' years after 
graduation I was engaged in Public Schools and Academies 
both in the East and West. My health breaking down, I 
retired to a farm in Butler County, Ohio. After remaining 
there for a number of years, we removed to Nashville, 
Tenn,, where at present I reside. It would have afforded 
me the utmost pleasure to have greeted those whom I have 
ever loved as brothers. In memory I revere the honored 
instructors who gave us the first impulse in Christian life- 
work. 

While God grants me life the scenes of Princeton will 
never fade from ray memory. Had the invitation been re- 
ceived at the proper time, from unavoidable hindrances it 
would have been impossible for me to meet you. I desire 
to utter my sincere regret that I could not greet you all in 
the spirit of Christian fellowship with a friendly shake of 
the hand, and trust that the divine blessing may attend those 
present through life's devious pathway and that in an un- 
broken band we all may assemble around the eternal throne 
as humble followers of the blessed Redeemer. 



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I am now in my seventieth year, enjo3nng to a good 
degree the peace and comfort belonging to the follovA^ers of 
the Saviour. 

I would be delighted to have access to any definite in- 
formation respecting my classmates and their respective 
spheres of usefulness. 

Accept my thanks for your kind attention, and believe 
me, 

Yours sincerely, 

W. C. Stukgeon. 

William Butler Thompson, son of the Hon. Waddy 
Thompson, a member of Congress from South Carolina. 
No information. 

Daniel A. Ulrich was born in Lebanon County, Penn- 
sylvania, April 10th, 1819. Ills fiither was the Rev. Daniel 
Ulrich, for more than fifty years an eminent clergyman of 
the Lutheran Church. His mother was Elizabeth Weidman 
whose ancestors were prominent in the army of the Revolu- 
tion. After completing the Freshman and Sophomore years 
at Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, he entered the Junior 
Class at Princeton in 1839. After his graduation he studied 
medicine at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, 
received the degree of M.D. in 1844, and commenced the 
practice of his profession at Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, 
Pa., where he remained for a few years. He then removed 
to Reading, Pa., where he continued medical practice until 
his death, January 6th, '79. 

Dr. Ulrich was married twice — his first wife was Hen- 
rietta jSTesbitt of Gettysburg, his second Mary Boyd of Read- 
ing. The latter, who is still living, is a descendant of Col. 
Weiss of Washington's Army, the discoverer of coal in 
Pennsylvania, near Weissport, where he resided. 

Dr. Ulrich left six children. He was highly esteemed 
for his professional ability and his exemplary Christian 
character. 



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John Hunn Voorhees. The Committee received from 
Mr. Voorhees the following communication : 

Washington, June, 1891. 
My Dear Prof. Duffielcl : 

I have received the circular of your committee on be- 
half of the Class of 1841, requesting my attendance at a 
<3la8s- reunion, to be held at Princeton on June 9th — the 
semi-centennial anniversarv of our graduation — and also re- 
questing a statement of date of my birth, ancestry, marriage 
and family, etc., independent, as I understand, of the per- 
sonal questions already propounded by the Superintendent 
of the National census. 

First let me thank your committee for the invitation, 
and I reply that if practicable I propose to meet you and 
those of our band of '41, who have survived the half century 
of life's battle, since we listened to the Baccalaureate of dear 
old Dr. Carnahan and went forth with our parchment shields 
to our various fields of action. 

As mortal birth must antedate our second academic ad- 
vent, I must reply in order of time, and ask you to fancy 
me as first greeting the light on the banks of the Tombigbee 
in Alabama, in the midst of that colony of Frenchmen who 
after the eclipse of Waterloo and the collapse of the Empire 
sought to beat their swords into pruning-hooks and cultivate 
the vine and the olive under a congressional grant of public 
land in the territory, just then — 1819 — emerging into 
statehood. I need not tell you that the vine and the olive 
did not flourish at that time under the cultivati<Mi of that 
Utopian band. Cotton had not mounted his throne. Eli 
Whitney had fled north with his gin to manufacture mus- 
kets at New Haven, where his son, our honored classmate, 
still continues that peaceful business. The French colony, 
discouraged, disbanded and sought other climes. 

My father, be it understood, was not a Frenchman, but 
descended in a direct line from Coert Albert Voor-Hees, 



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who emigrated from Holland in 1660 and settled in Flat 
Lands, Long Island, while the Dutch flag still floated ovei 
'New Amsterdam. Our association with the French was- 
solely owing to social relations. Philadelphia was then 
the centre of commerce and trend of European intercourse. 
There I passed my early youth, for it was the home of 
my maternal grandfather. Captain John Ilunn, who had 
done the state some service and the British some damage as- 
captain of a privateer in 1776 and had crowned his work by 
voting for the Federal Constitution of 1787 as a delegate to- 
the Pennsylvania Convention. 

After the usual vicissitudes of child-life, including, I 
presume, mumps and measles, I came to Princeton in 1838 
to prepare for college, under the care and patronage of my 
relative, that exemplar}^ Christian gentleman and former 
treasurer of the College, Robert Voorhees. It may be in- 
teresting to some of you to know that I pursued my pre- 
liminary studies in the attic chamber of the Voorhees home- 
stead, formerly occupied for a like purpose by Edward IS", 
Kirk (who was also educated by Mr. Voorhees), though I 
cannot recall that I imitated my predecessor in his mode of 
exit from said attic window to join his friend and classmate 
James W. Alexander, our Professor of Belles Lettres, in 
those nocturnal adventures, doubtless greatly exaggerated^ 
which are told of this gay twain, who afterwards became 
such distinguished Presbyterian Divines, 

I entered Princeton Sophomore half advanced in 1889^ 
having passed the usual brilliant examination before Prof. 
Maclean — dear old Johnny— and graduated with at least 
reflected honor, for was it not in company with Cuyler and 
Dutfield and Dod and the Scudders and Biddle among the 
living and with the honored dead — our lately departed. 
Nixon, and Hodge, and who does not recall our valedictor- 
ian — Dick Walker — whose notes seemed an echo of the 
sweet song of his poet-kinsman Richard Wilde, " My Life is- 
Like a Summer Rose." 



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Of course I studied law, and recall the genial Saturday 
lectures of James S. Green, in whose office round the corner, 
with Henrj'' M, Alexander, and Jack Gulick, and John 
Rice — the latter two no more respond to roll-call — I laid in 
vast stores of common law and listened to Boss Green's 
loved theme, the Saxon " Wittingeraote," as he termed it. 
Afterward I concluded my course in Washington County, 
N. Y., in the office of a relative, and was admitted in July 
term of the Supreme Court of that State at Utica in 1845. 

But the Press, that guardian of civil libert}^, demanded 
my aid, and responding to the call, b«hold me next year as 
editor of a paper in Jersey City, battling for popular rights 
against the New Jersey Railroad and the New Jersey Lot- 
tery, and ive, speaking after the manner of editors, had the 
satisfaction of seeing the fare between the great cities of 
New York and I'hiladelphia reduced and the lottery driven 
out to Delaware, the land of peaches, solely by our own in- 
dividual efforts, — for the truth of which claim I confidently 
appeal to the now mature and sober judgment of Tom Kin- 
ney of the Newark Daily Adcerdser, who was in the tight and 
had, I presume, a free pass and a lottery ticket in his pocket,, 
at least so I said at the time. 

Having delivered Jersey I tried to redeem Missouri 
from Democracy hand in hand with Sam Breckinridge. 
How his sad death at Detroit the other day recalls our cam- 
paign for Scott — but you know how that " hasty plate of 
soup " upset our calculations. In the course of time behold 
me on the Pacific Coast engaged in introducing the reaper, 
in whose manufacture I became interested, into the golden 
grain fields of California. And my laurels during all the 
fearful contest for the Union were gathered in those peace- 
ful fields — though let me tell you " sotto voce,'* 1 turned no 
deaf ear to the siren song of politics and came near being 
elected on the Bell and Everett ticket to the California legis- 
lature — in fact was only beaten by the machinations of the 
other two parties. 



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You ask if I am married and to whom and when this 
event took place. In 1864 I took to wife Elizabeth Aston 
Warder, daughter of the late Doctor John A. Warder of 
North Bend, Hamilton County, Ohio, and have two sons, 
one engaged in business in Washington, D. C, the other in 
the employ of the Penna, Railroad Co. 

My story draws to a close. 

I have not actively or lovingly pursued the practice of 
law in the courts, being drawn rather to literary pursuits 
and political studies, and find Patent Law, which a learned 
author terms the " metaphysics of the law," a more attractive 
branch, in which I am now engaged in Washington City, 
D. C. Very truly yours, 

John Hunn Voorhees. 

Richard Wilde Walker was the youngest child of 
Hon. John Walker, the President of the Convention which 
framed the Constitution of Alabama in 1819, and one of her 
first Senators in the Congress of the United States, elected 
October 28th, 1819. Richard was born in Huntsville on the 
16th of February, 1823, a few months after his father's re- 
signation of his seat in the United States Senate. At his 
father's death he was an infant in his mother's arms, and 
she too died when he was yet a boy. He was a pupil at the 
old Greene Academy at Huntsville, Ala., was a student in 
the University of Virginia at the session of 1838-39, went 
thence to Princeton, and in 1841 was graduated with dis- 
tinction, receiving the Valedictory Oration. 

Having finished his collegiate course, Mr. Walker re- 
turned to Alabama, studied law in the office of his dis- 
tinguished brother, Hon. L. P. AValker, was licensed and 
began practice in partnership with him in January, '44. At 

the session of the Alabama Legislature of 1844-45, which 
was largely Democratic, though a Whig and party spirit ran 
high, he was elected Solicitor of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, 
and entered upon his long and brilliant public career. Sub- 



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sequentlj, he and his brother removed to Florence where he 
married a daughter of the late John Simpson, a merchant of 
high standing. In '51, as a Union Whig, he was elected a 
representative of Lauderdale County in the Alabama Legis- 
lature, and was appointed chairman of the Judiciary Com- 
mittee. In 1855, as an opponent of the Know-Nothing 
party, he alRliated with the Democrats and was again elected 
to the Legislature and was made Speaker. In 1858 he was 
elected an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ala- 
bama, and held the office till 1863. In 1861, while yet a 
Judge, he was elected by the State Convention a member of 
the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, and 
served in that capacity. In 1863 he was elected by the Leg- 
islature a Senator in the Confederate Congress at Rich- 
mond and served till the dissolution of the Confederacy. 

In his private and public relations Judge Walker had 
an exceptional purity and elevation of character. He had a 
nice sense of honor, a delicacy of sentiment and kindness of 
heart that made him peculiarly observant of the rights of 
others, and of his own duty toward them. He possessed a 
high order of intellect, strengthened and refined by literary 
culture. He was calm, cool and dispassionate in forming 
his judgments, firm in his convictions, and bold and decide'd 
in expressing them. He combined in an extraordinary de- 
gree the sucwiter in modo with the fortiter in re in his forensic 
arguments and public speeches, and his persuasive eloquence 
commanded alike the attention of listening senates and the 
popular multitude. 

Judge Walker died at Huntsville June 15th, 1874. His 
death v/as regarded as a public calan:iity, and it was said of 
him that " no man ever had more of the general respect, 
love, and admiration of his fellow-citizens." 

His last sickness was short and exceedingly painful, but 
borne with Christian fortitude. He was a member of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church and a vestryman of the Church 



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of the IsTativity. His walk and conversation were worthy his- 
Christian vocation. One of his last acts of consciousness was to 
ask and receive at the hands of his old college-mate and present 
pastor, liev. Dr. Banister, the Holy Communion. Then, in 
humble trust and holy confidence, he sank peacefully and 
quietly into rest — " the rest that remaineth for the people of 
God." 

His son, Richard Wilde Walker, was graduated at 
Princeton in 1877, studied law, and is now a successor of his 
father on the bench of the Supreme Court of Alabama. 

William S. Ward was born at Plainfield, IST. J., July 
13th, 1821. He was the son of Dr. E. D. and Elizabeth D. 
Ward. After graduation he was engaged as a teacher till 
1847 in the Classical School of the Rev. David A. Frame at 
Bloomfield and subsequently at Montclair, IST. J. He entered 
the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City 
in 1847, was graduated in 1849, and the same year com- 
menced the practice of medicine in Newark, N. J. During 
the late war he was in the Government service as assistant 
surgeon at hospitals in Washington, D. C, and Newark. 
At the close of the war he resumed practice in Newark 
which has been continued to the present time. 

In the spring of 1850 he married Elizabeth H. Stitt of 
Philadelphia, has had seven children, of whom two sons 
survive. 

Eli Whitney was born in New Haven, Conn., Nov. 
24th, 1820. His father was Eli Whitney, the distinguished 
inventor of the cotton gin, which has contributed so largely 
to the prosperity of the Southern States and the economic 
interests of the whole country. His grandfather was Eli 
Whitney of Westboro, Mass. His mother was a grand- 
daughter of President Jonathan Edwards and daughter of 
the Hon. Pierrepont Edwards, who was graduated at the 
College of New Jersey in 1768, was married at the age of 



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■nineteen to Francis Ogclen of Elizabeth, IST. J., was a mem- 
ber of Congress and subsequently Judge of the United 
States District Court for the New York and Connecticut 
District. 

Mr. Whitney has spent almost his entire life in his na- 
tive city where he now resides, and is highly esteemed and 
respected for his ability and success as a man of business, 
for his public spirit as a citizen, and for his sterling integrity. 
He has been and is now extensively engaged in the manu- 
facture of fire-arms of different systems and has made and 
patented many important improvements. By his engineer- 
ing skill and financial ability he was mainly instrumental in 
securing the success of the effort in 1859-61 to introduce an 
abundant supply of water into New Haven. He was ap- 
pointed by President Lincoln one of the Commissioners 
to the English Exposition in 1862. Though holding no 
political office, he has been interested in public affairs and 
has occasionally been influential in securing important legis- 
lation. He is at the present time one of the Electors-at- 
large on the Republican ticket of Connecticut. 

He was married June 17th, 1845, at Utica, N. Y., to 
Sarah Perkins Dalliba, daughter of Major Jones Dalliba of 
the Ordnance Corps of the United States Army and fought 
at the battle of Lundy's Lane. His wife's mother was Susan 
Huntington of Rome, N. Y., whose grandfather was a mem- 
ber of the Continental Congress and the first mayor of Nor- 
wich, Conn. He has had four cliildren, of whom a son and 
a daughter are still living. His eldest daughter was married 
to the Rev. Chauncey B. Brewster of Grace Church, Brook- 
lyn, and died in May, 1885. 

Joseph Graham Witherspoon of Brookland, Alabama, 
entered the Sophomore Class in 1838, He died in '52. No 
further information. 



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MEmbErs nf the Class nf IB4I 
who WETE graduatEd in PrincEtnn, hut not in '41. 



Eugene Laavrence was born in New York CAty, Oct. 
4th, 1823. He entered the Class of '41 during the Freshman 
year and remained until the end of the Junior year. He 
studied law for a time in New York, completed his course at the 
Harvard Law School, and commenced the practice of his 
profession in Boston. He was associated with a son of the 
distinguished lawyer Jeremiah Mason and was personally 
acquainted with Prescott, Everett, Webster, Choate and 
other eminent Bostonians. He wrote a volume on " The 
Augustan Age," which was commended by Mr. Prescott. 
In 1849 he removed to Georgia, and whilst there he en- 
deavored by lectures and articles in the papers to introduce 
common schools, but was unsuccessful. He subsequently 
came to New York and engaged in the practice of law, but 
soon abandoned it that he might devote himself to literary 
pursuits. He visited Europe and remained there for some 
time to avail himself of the libraries of London and Paris. 
In 1855 he published a work on " The Lives of the British 
Historians," which received complimentary notice from Pres- 
cott, Bancroft and Irving. He has read several important 
papers before the New York Historical Society and con- 
tributed numerous articles to cyclopedias and magazines. 
In 1876 he published " Historical Studies " and in 1880 
" Literary Primers." He has been for some years engaged 



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in preparing a "History of Kome " which is now ready for 
the press. An article from his pen in the April, '92, ISTo. of 
Harper's Magazine on " The Mystery of Columbus " was bor- 
rowed by The London Standard, and reviewed in a Greek 
magazine published at Athens. 

Mr. Lawrence never married, lie resides with a sister 
in New York City in the same house they have occupied for 
upwards of forty years. 

John Stillwell Sciianck was born near Freehold, N. 
J., Feb. 24th, 1817. His father, Rulef R. Schanck, was 
descended from Kulef Martense Schanck who came from 
Holland in 1650 and settled at Flatbush, Long Island. His 
mother, Mary Stillwell, was descended from Nicholas Still- 
well, who settled at New Amsterdam, now New York, in 
1638. 

In 1835 he had the opportunity, of which he gladly 
availed himself, of attending the lectures at the College of 
Professors Henry and Torrey and assisting them in their 
laboratories. ]iy his association with these eminent scientists, 
who to the close of their lives were his warm personal friends, 
he became deeply interested in scientific studies and de- 
termined as soon as practicable to enter college and com- 
plete the regular course of study. He accordingly went to 
the then celebrated Academy of Lenox, Mass , and was there 
prepared to enter the Sophomore Class at Princeton in 1838. 
Being in advance of the class in several studies, at the be. 
ginning of the academic year in 1839 he was admitted to 
the Senior Class and was graduated in 1840. He commenced 
the study of medicine in Princeton in the office of Dr. John 
N. Woodhull, of the Class of '28, the founder of the Wood- 
hull I'rofessorship of Modern Languages. He subsequently 
entered the Medical School of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania and received the degree of M.D. from that Institution 
in 1843. He married Maria, daughter of James W. Robbins 
of Lenox, Mass., and commenced the successful practice of 



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his profession in Princeton. In 1847, on the recommenda- 
tion of Vice-President Maclean and Professor Henry, he was 
appointed by the Trustees Curator of the Zoological Museum, 
which was followed soon after by his appointment to a 
lectureship on Zoology, and Anatomy and Physiology. 
From that time to the present year he has delivered a course 
of lectures every year on one or all of these subjects. 

On the resignation of Dr. Torrey as Professor of Chem- 
istry in 1854 the Trustees invited Dr. Schanck to deliver a 
course of lectures on Chemistry to the Senior Class. These 
lectures were continued the following year and resulted in 
the appointment of Dr. Schanck in 1856 to the professorship 
of Chemistry. As this was not at that time a full professor- 
ship as to duties or salary, Dr. Schanck in accepting the 
appointment continued the practice of his profession in con- 
nection with his duties in the College. 

In a letter of Dr. Torrey to President Maclean in 1854, 
he says, " I have long desired to see Dr. Schanck placed in 
a position in the College of New Jersey, where his eminent 
talents as a teacher and an investigator of Natural Science 
€Ould have full scope. I have been intimate with him from 
the time he was with me as an assistant in the laboratory. 
I saw him daily when he was an aid to Professor Henry and 
know that he w^as highly appreciated by that distinguished 
teacher. I believe it would be a great benefit to the College 
if an arrangement were made b}^ which the whole time of 
Dr. Schanck could be devoted to the subject which for 
several years he has taught with so much ability and suc- 
cess." Owing to the limited income of the College the 
Trustees were unable to adopt the suggestion of Dr. Torrey 
until 1865, when the chair of Chemistry was for the first 
time made a full professorship and Dr. Schanck was enabled 
to relinquish the practice of medicine and devote himself 
wholly to professorial duties in connection with the College. 

In 1886 his sphere of duty was enlarged by his being 
made " Professor of Chemistry and Hygiene.". 



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At the meeting of the Trustees at the Comrnencemeat 
of '92 Dr. Schanck resigned his professorship, after 45 years 
of faithful and successful service. His resignation was 
accepted and with a retiring salary he was made Emeritus 
Professor of Chemistry. 

He continues to reside in Princeton, spending his sum- 
mers at the ancestral home of the Robbins family at Lenox, 
Mass. 

He received the degree of LL.D. from Lafayette College 
in 1866. 

Charles F. Woodhull was born in August, 1821, at 
Manalapan, Monmouth Co., N. J. His fiather was John T. 
Woodhull, M.D. ; his grandfather the Rev. John Woodhull, 
D.D., of the Class of 1766, and from 1780 to 1824 a Trustee 
of the College. His mother was Anne Wikoff, daughter of 
the Hon. William Wikoft'. 

Soon after his graduation he became assistant teacher 
in a school at Rahway, N. J. He subsequently taught in 
Freehold and in Middletown, iST. J. until 1850 when he be- 
came associated with his brother, William Wikoff Woodhull, 
Ph.D. of the Class of '33 and Tutor from '39 to '42, in con- 
ducting a boarding-school for boys at Freehold. In 1870 he 
opened a select school for boys at Camden, N. J., and con- 
tinued there until '81. Li '82 he was appointed Instructor 
in Physics and Mathematics in Lincoln University and con- 
tinued there, a colleague of his brother, the Rev. Gilbert 
Tennent Woodhull, D.D. of the Class of '52, until his death 
in Februarv, '90. 



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Information peeeived too late fop insertion in its 
proper place in the t^eeord. 



Jonathan T. Brown was born at Lyons Farms, N. J., 
in 1820. He was the only son of Col. William Brown, an 
elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth. He 
prepared for college in Elizabeth at the Classical School of 
Mr. James G. ISTuttman of the Class of '31, and entered the 
Sophomore class at Princeton in '38. He entered the Theo- 
logical Seminary at Princeton in '41, but after one year was 
constrained to leave on account of his health and went 
South. He remained there for a time but without improve- 
ment and returned to his home at Lyons Farms, where he 
died of consumption, Aug. 8th, 1844. At the suggestion of 
his pastor, the Rev. Nicholas Murray, D.D., there was 
placed on his tombstone the inscription, " Without the 
labors of the ministry he has entered on its rewards." 

Henry Parkhurst Johnson was born at Newark, K. 
J., March 5th, 1822. He prepared for college with his 
class mate and school-mate Brown at Mr. Nuttman's school 
in Elizabeth. After his graduation he was for three years a 
successful assistant teacher in the Preparatory School of the 
Eev. Mr. Crowell at West Chester, Pa. In Sept., '44, he 
entered the Theological Seminary at Princeton to prepare 
for his chosen vocation, the gospel ministry. His studies 
were somewhat interrupted by an attack of sickness in the 
spring of '46, from which he never entirely recovered. On 
Oct. 8th of the same year he was licensed to preach by the 
Presbytery of Elizabeth, at their meeting in Paterson, N. J., 
and on the following Sabbath preached in the morning in 
the First Church of Elizabeth and in the afternoon in the 



67 

Second Church. Owing to the state of his health he con- 
sidered the question of suspending his studies for a time, 
but concluded to return to the Seminary and endeavor to 
complete the regular three-years course of study. During 
the winter of '46-'47 he repeatedly supplied the pulpit of 
the church at Elizabethport, which was at that time without 
a pastor. Earlj' in the spring he was prostrated by a 
hemorrhage from the lungs in Princeton, and as soon as his 
strength would allow was removed to his home near Eliza- 
beth, where he died July 6th, 1847. During his illness, 
when there was some prospect that his health might be 
restored, he received a call to the church at Elizabethport. 
An address was delivered at his funeral by his pastor, the 
Rev. Nich'olas Murray, D.D., who referred in atfecting terms 
to the mysterious providence by which his young friends. 
Brown and Johnson, so intimately associated at school and 
college, and who entered on preparation for the work of the 
ministry with such bright prospects of extended usefulness 
in the Master's service on earth should have been transfer- 
red so early to His service in the upper sanctuary. 



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SUMMARY 

OF THE GRADUATES OF '41. 

No information, 5 

Dead — no further information, 5 

Died within iirst decade after graduation, 7 

Still living, ' 20 

Lawyers, . . " .20 

Ministers, 12 

Foreign missionaries, 3 

Physicians 7 

Doctors of Law, 5 

Doctors of Divinity, 9 

Theological Professors, 2 

Medical Professor, 1 

College President, 1 

College Professors, 3 

Judges, 5 

United States Senator and candidate for Vice-President, 1 

Confederate States Senator, 1 

Members of the House of Eepresentatives, 2 

Members of State Legislatures, 7 

Journalist, 1 

Capitalist and United States Commissioner to World's Pair, London, . . 1 



Year of birth of 38 reported : 

In 1818, 1 

" 1819, ..,....,.. 3 

" 1820, ......... 7 

" 1821, 5 

" 1822, 10 

" 1823, 11 

" 1824, 1 

Average age at graduation, 19| 

Of the 14 Doctorates, 9 were received by members of the class under 

nineteen vears of age when graduated. 



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EXTRACTS PROM CATALOGUE OP 1840-'41. 

Seniors 72 

Juniors, 48 

Sophomores, 90 

Freshmen, 16 

226 



STATE AND COUNTRY REPRESENTATION. 

Yerniont, 1 

Massachusetts, 1 

Connecticut, 1 

New York, 28 

New Jersey. 55 

Pennsylvania, 31 

Maryland, 15 

District of Columbia, 11 

Virginia, 17 

North Carolina, 12 

Soutli Carolina 11 



Georgia, . . . . 
Alabama, . . . . 
Mississippi, . . . 
Louisiana, . . . 
Tennessee, . . . 
Kentucky, . . . 

Ohio, 

Indian Tcn-itory 

Greece, 

Ceylon, . . . . 



6 

10 
5 
8 
2 
6 
1 
S 
1 
1 





Middle States, . 


114 








Southern 


States, . 


103 








"Western 
Indian 1 


States, . 


1 








Cerritory, 


3 






Europe, 
Asia, . . 




1 










1 










EXPENSES. 






WINTER 


SESSION. 




SUMMER 


SKSSIOX. 




Board, 22 weeks. 


155.00 or $41.25 


Board, 19 weeks, 


i!!47.50 or 


• 135.62 


Tuition, 


20.00 


20.00 


Tuition, 


20.00 


20.00 


Room rent, 


6.00 


6.00 


Eoom rent. 


6.00 


6.00 


Fuel, 


13.00 


13.00 


Fuel, 


.50 


.50 


Library, 


1.00 


1.00 


Library, 


1.00 


1.00 


Servant's wages, 


4.00 


2.00 


Servant's wages. 


4.00 


2.00 


Washing, 


7.00 


6.00 


Washing, 


7.00 


6.00 


Incidentals, 


2.50 


1.50 


Incidentals, 


2.50 


1.50 




$108.59 


$90.75 


$88.50 


$72.62 



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There are two Refectories, at one of which board is 
furnished at $2.50 a week; at the other for $1.87| a week. 
Board will be furnished to pious and indigent young men 
who have in view the gospel ministry at $1.00 per week. 
The balance due the steward, at the present price of board- 
ing, will be paid by the Board of Trustees out of funds to 
be provided for that purpose. 



TERMS AND VACATIONS. 

The college year is divided into two terms or sessions. 
The Annual Commencement is on the last Wednesday of 
September. The winter session begins six weeks from that 
time and closes on the first Thursday after the second Tues- 
day in April. The summer session begins five weeks after 
the close of the winter session and ends on the last Wed* 
nesday in September. 

LIBRARIES. 

The College Library contains eight thousand volumes, 
and is opened twice every week for the accommodation of 
the students. 

RECENT IMPROVEMENTS. 

It may be interesting to the friends and graduates of 
the college, and to those who have subscribed to the Alumni 
Fund, to be informed that in addition to the new college 
buildings erected within a few years (East College in 1833, 
West College in 1836) the Literary Societies have erected 
for their own use two new Halls. (Built in 1838). These 
are beautiful buildings of the Ionic order, sixty-two feet 
long, forty-one feet wide, and two stories high. The col- 
umns of the porticoes are copied from those of the temple 
on the Ilissus. In other respects the buildings are copied 
from a temple on the Island of Teos. 



1841. 



THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 



REUNION 



TUESDAY, JUNE 9TH, 



1891. 



Early in the spring of 1841 Messrs. Cuyler, Duffield and 
E. Scudder issued a circular to the surviving members of 
the Class of '41, so far as their addresses were known, ask- 
ing an expression of opinion on the question of celebrating 
the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the graduation of the 
Class by a Reunion at the ensuing Commencement. In 
view of the replies received, about the 1st of May the fol- 
lowing Circular was issued : 

" The Class of '41 will celebrate the Semi-Centennial 
Anniversary of their graduation by a Reunion on Tuesday, 
June 9th, the day before Commencement. From replies to 
the former Circular there is reason to believe that a majority 
of the surviving members of the Class will be present. All 
who are not providentially prevented are earnestly requested 
to attend. 

" Each member of the Class, whether able to attend the 
Reunion or not, is requested to send to Professor Duffield as 
soon as convenient a statement giving the date and place of 
birth, ancestry, course since graduation, if married name of 
wife, family, academic or other honors, publications, and 
any other personal matters that may be of interest to Class- 
mates. The Committee will endeavor to obtain a similar 
statement in regard to the deceased members. The papers 
will be read at the Reunion and printed with the proceed- 
ings, for the Class and their personal friends. 

Theodore L. Cuyler, 
John T. Duffield, 
Edward W, Scudder, 



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The Anniversary was accordingly celebrated by a Re- 
union, at which the following members of the Class were 
present : 

Hon. Craig Biddle, LL.D. 

Hon. James H. Bruere. 

Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, D.D. 

Hon. Amzi Dodd, LL.D, 

Prof. John T. Duffield, D.D., LL.D. 

Eugene Lawrence, A.M. 

Hon. John Linn. 

Hon. Edward W. Scudder, LL.D. 

John Hunn Voorhees, Esq, 

William Spencer Ward, M.D. 

Hon. Eli Whitney. 

At 10:30 the members of the Class who had reached 
Princeton met at the library of Professor Duffield and cordial 
greetings were exchanged — in some instances of those who 
had not met for half-a-century. After spending a short time 
in reviving the associations of College days, noting how 
much each one had changed and yet how much in each was 
unchanged, with inquiries about the members of the Class 
still living and reminiscences of the departed, they set out to 
visit the localities and buildings on the College grounds and 
in the town, of special interest. Entering LTniversity Place, 
a street now built up with private residences where there 
was no street in '41, the railroad station which formerly 
was at the Canal Basin now just at hand, with a number 
of public buildings erected within recent years in view, 
the members of the Class who had not revisited Princeton 
since their graduation, bewildered as the famous congres- 
sional orator though not from the same cause, asked in his 
memorable words, " Where am I at ? " They were informed 
that they were standing on what was formerly the rear end 
of a lot fronting on Nassau Street and belonging in our 
College days to one of Princeton's " Institutions," Peter 



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Polite, a prominent member of the colored aristocracy, who 
blacked the boats and brushed the coats of the aristocrats in 
College and who had the tutors' privilege of visiting the 
rooms of the students after the ringing of the evening bell for 
study hours, Peter's object, however, not to look after the 
morals of the students but to sell apples, cakes and pies to 
those who could afford such luxuries. The mention of 
Peter's name recalled his reply to the student who one 
evening asked him, " Peter, what emoluments accrue to you 
from the nocturnal vending of edible commodities ? " With 
the graceful bow of a gentleman of the old school he replied, 
" Please put de question in English — I nebber studied Latin." 
Our company proceeded — that is, went in procession — to 
l^assau Street, and thence to the College grounds. There 
everything was so changed since '41 that those who were 
revisiting their Alma Mater for the first time since their 
graduation found it difficult to recognize the maternal home. 
In '41 the College grounds, not including the lot now oc- 
cupied by Prof. Packard's house and Marquand Chapel, 
were bounded on the east by a lane leading from Nassau 
Street to the Potter property — now the roadway to the Presi- 
dent's house — and on the south by a fence in the rear of the 
Society Halls. There were at that time thirteen buildings 
on the grounds — the President's house now occupied by the 
Dean ; the Yice-President's house, on the east side of the front 
campus, corresponding in position to the President's house; 
the building now known as the College Offices ; a similar 
building on the east side of the campus — the basement occu- 
pied by the College Refectory, the first story known as Chem- 
ical Hall containing aLecture room, the Museum and a Chem- 
ical Laboratory, the upper story known as Philosophical 
Hall containing a Lecture room, the Philosophical apparatiis 
and a Laboratory in which Professor Henry experimented 
and made discoveries in Electro-magnetism which resulted 
in the Telegraph — North College, with Professor Henry's 



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residence on the west, now the site of Reunion, and the 
Steward's house on the east on the present path from Nassau 
St. to Whig Hall; East and West Colleges; the Literary 
Society Halls; a rickety frame building known as the New 
Kefectory or the Poor House on the site of the house 
now occupied by Prof. Packard ; and a Professor's house 
occupied by Prof. Dod on the site of Marquand Chapel. 
Of these thirteen buildings but five remain and none of these 
unchanged. We found the old President's house improved 
in appearance and comfort by a portico in front and a bay 
window opening on the campus. The basement of the Col- 
lege Offices building, formerly occupied by the Freshman 
and Sophomore Recitation rooms, with which the old Alumni 
have many interesting associations, is now closed; on the 
first story the Library and adjoining Lecture-room have 
given place to the Faculty, the Treasurer's, and the Reg- 
istrar's rooms; the two rooms on the upper story, previous 
to '38 occupied by the Literary Societies, after '38 for many 
years the Senior and Junior Lecture and Recitation rooms, 
now temporarily the reading-rooms of the Societies. The 
" Old North " of '41 with its three front and two rear en- 
trances, its halls extending the entire length of the building, 
and Chapel opposite the main entrance, was scarce recogniz- 
able in " Old North"' as renewed after the fire of '54, with 
its single front entrance guarded as the pilgrim's pathway to 
the celestial city by lions, its length extended by towers, its 
halls no longer long, the rear wing extended and now occu- 
pied by the (ieological Museum and a gallery of portraits of 
the Presidents and distinguished friends of the College, with 
nothing to remind us of the Chapel of '41 but Peale's Wash- 
ington in the historic frame, which formerly hung on the 
east wall of the Chapel. Another story has been added to 
East and West Colleges by a mansard-roof, and though 
still by no means beautiful specimens of architecture their 
appearance has been decidedly improved. In addition 



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to the eight College buildings that had been removed a; 
dozen private residences fronting on l^Tassau, Washington 
and William Streets, with which the students of '41 were 
familiar, had disappeared, and in their stead on the College 
grounds greatly enlarged in front and rear some twenty-tive 
or thirty imposing buildings had been erected, indicating 
even more than the increased number of names on the College 
rolls the progress of the College during the last half-century. 

At 12 o'clock v/e separated to attend the Annual Meet- 
ings of the Literary Societies — the Whig Society meeting in 
the Examination room in Dickinson Hall, the Cliosophie 
Society in what is now the Old Chapel built in '47 — the 
Society Halls in which at their opening in '38 most of the 
Class of '41 were initiated having been recently removed to 
give place to the new Halls that have since been erected. 
At 1 o'clock we met at the Alumni Meeting in the Old 
Chapel and went together in the procession to University 
Hall to the Alumni Dinner. Among the after-dinner speakers 
the Class was represented by Dr. Cuyler who fully sustained ' 
his unsurpassed reputation as a platform orator. The schol- 
arly rhetoric, sparkling wit and thrilling eloquence of his 
eulogy of old Alma Mater and the Class of '41 were received 
with rapturous applause. 

At 4 o'clock we attended the reception of President 
and Mrs. Patton, and reciprocated the cordial greeting we 
received with cordial congratulations on the brilliant success 
of his administration. 

The palatial Presidential mansion with its beautiful sur- 
roundings and extensive prospect — of w^hich Dr. McCosh 
who had visited the prominent Colleges in this country and 
in Europe said, " it is the finest President's house in the 
world, and on leaving it I felt like Adam leaving Eden " — 
is in striking contrast with the unimposing building that for 
a century and a quarter was the residence of Princeton's 
Presidents, and yet, with the exception of Nassau Hall, to 



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loyal Princetonians the unimposing, unadorned old Presi- 
dent's house is a more interesting building than any other 
on the College grounds, and whatever changes the progress 
of the College in the future may render necessary or desir- 
able, should be sacredly preserved as a monument of that 
memorable period in the history of the College, the forma- 
tive period in the historj'- of the nation, when Princeton, 
limited in numbers and resources, but under the Presidency 
of men who " stamped " with an " iron heel," exerted an 
influence more potent than any other Institution in the 
country, in promoting evangelical religion, in securing our 
National Independence and in framing and administering the 
Federal Constitution. 

The Class dinner was served at 5 o'clock in the Faculty 
room. Instead of after-dinner speeches, during and sub- 
sequent to the dinner there was a (!ontinuous feast of remin- 
iscence and an overflow of soul. Interesting incidents of 
College days were recalled, with anecdotes of noted char- 
acters among the Facultj' and students that elicited such roars 
of laughter that an outsider might have supposed the com- 
pany within were gay and festive undergraduates instead of 
grave and reverend Alumni of three score years and ten. 
The roll was reviewed and information in regard to the 
absent surviving and the deceased members of the Class 
communicated. Letters were read expressing regret at their 
inability to be present from Messrs. Gibson, Kinney, Minor, 
Potter, Rogers, Royer and a telegram from Pickett. Want 
of time prevented the reading at length of the communica- 
tions received by the Committee in response to the Circular 
requesting from the members of the Class information as to 
their personal history, and Professor Dufiield was appointed 
to prepare and publish for the members of the Class and 
their friends, a Class Record, using at his discretion the facts 
stated in the communications received and supplementing 
them by any additional information obtainable. 



78 

After several hours of delightful intercourse, with thank- 
fulness that so large a number of the Class were still survi- 
ving and that of these so large a number were able to be 
present at the Reunion, with tender memories of the de- 
parted, and with pardonable pride in the exceptionally hon- 
orable record of the Class of '41, we parted at the close of a 
day that will be remembered with pleasure by all who were 
present, during the remainder of their earthly pilgrimage. 



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